Authors are too honest to fudge data but too liberal to credit President Bush.
But because it's not a conservative idea, even conservatives won't give President Bush any credit for doing something that has improved the lives of our young people.
One of those "a pox on both your houses" moments.
How unnecessary an expansion is it if it is doing what the states can't do on their own?
"Discouraged creativity"? One of those useless comments that makes me wish the speaker were in front of me, so I could slap him.
Some improvement, but at what cost?
They could have just issued vouchers, saved a LOAD of our money, and gotten better results!! Thanks George and Teddy. Brilliant power grab you have there.
All they do is teach to the test now. Drill kids enough and you can get them to pass a multiple choice test. The system sucks.
Funny our kids...seniors...number who failed the test...43%. 43% won’t graduate! And that is after all the money thrown at our school system.
Don’t know what to say or think, I just don’t see the same results as the article. Sad, very sad.
Because Bush didn't write the bill.
I would like to see us move away from the Kennedy wing of the Republican party.
Having a wife who has recently returned to public education, I can tell you categorically the test results are cooked.
This assumes, of course, we don't simply home-school as a culture (the best way, imo, but not workable as a universal solution). I hate publicly funded schools, but since we have them, the best way to work them is to have as much parental involvement as possible.
There are, of course, real problems with charter schools as well (the most motivated parents are often the biggest nutcases, and parents today seem oblivious to the fact that little Johnny can be a monster if not disciplined), but those problems are eclipsed by a structure in which those responsible for teacher accountability are the unions.
"No child left behind" has actually REDUCED the overall scores in my wife's charter school, as disproportionate time is now spent with kids who are damaged, as opposed to helping the brightest kids perform to the limit of their capacities.
I make a point to ask every teacher I run into about their thoughts on NCLB. So far, I’ve asked about ten, ranging politically from very liberal to very conservative, and every single one of them thinks that NCLB is garbage.
...and some liberal Democrats complain it has placed too much emphasis on high-stakes tests and discouraged creativity.
Yep. How dare teacher tell little Johnny that 2+2 does not equal 39. Or that 'CAT' is not spelled 'rtxyupcge'
Sheesh, how uncreative can one get.
You are forgetting two fundamental problems with NCLB.
1.) Any test given, regardless, must have a percentage of failures to be a valid test. As the number of people who pass a test approach 100%, the test must become more difficult. You will eventually test yourself out of ability. This is a fact that cannot be ignored.
2.) All students, regardless, will achieve the same levels. This is impossible because NCLB is trying to dictate intelligence. There is no feasible way, no matter if you private school, charter school, homeschool, etc. that you can change a fundamental aspect of a person. My nephew has Downs Syndrome. He will never earn a high school diploma, but under the terms of NCLB, he has to pass the same tests as his gifted, top of her class sister.
I have no problems with accountability. I just wish that some would look at the realistic aspects of this law.
NCLB has probably helped some kids who were below average in ability. But it has hurt others who were above average because of the dumbing down of the system.
I heard on the radio this morning that our congress in Sacrament is trying to pass a law that will end the high school exit exam.
If you cannot test, you cannot measure or, hold anyone accountable.
BTTT!
What I noticed, which seems relatively common in the results from state to state, is represented on pages such as that for Florida, under the title “Percentage of Students Scoring at the Proficient Level or Above in Reading.”
Look at that graph. What does it really say...?
Does it not indicate, as with so many of the other states, that the longer the average child stays in public education the further they fall behind...?
Not in Los Angeles, Alta California, Mexico.