In North Carolina, for instance, there has been a gradual shift towards increasing state power regarding education policy and authority. While the General Assembly originally instructed local governments to create certain education bodies, certification processes and curricula, the end of the Civil War marked a significant turning point for North Carolina public schools. States significantly increased financing for schools as well as prescribed courses and textbooks schools were supposed to use in order to boost academic achievement across all countries. In addition, the state began to offer assistance with funding and constructing schools in areas unable to finance the construction of institutions (Mesibov and Johansen, …show more content…
Due to the lack of flexibility, North Carolina biology teachers can often become dissatisfied with the positions they currently hold. To these individuals, standards and administration can be intrusive on how lessons are conducted, and can fail to properly address the needs of students, parents, faculty and the community at large. The lack of feedback and input from teachers hinders the overall improvement of the teaching practice, and fails to promote an effective and positive learning environment (Campany, 2011).
Increased teacher standards fail to boost results. Coupled with its evaluation process, the North Carolina Professional Teaching Standards aims to provide students with a skilled and adequate teacher. These tests are slated to provide a measurement of students’ knowledge and skills, and with teaching standards allows administrators to understand areas where teachers are effective or need assistance in addressing. Progress is primarily checked through these exams rather than methods teachers feel would best fit their classes, limiting the amount of academic freedom teachers feel they should have in these environments (Campany,