[The Free Engineer]

Bill Clinton had “No Child Left Behind”.

Joe Biden and Gavin Newsome have “No Child Gets Ahead”.

[Leaning Right]

“No Child Left Behind” was a terrible program. Among other things, it destroyed the trades programs in the schools. NCLB was another idiotic idea by that idiot George W. Bush. It was not a Clinton thing.

[Lib Buster]

Sorry to say, but “No Child Left Behind” was courtesy of George W. Bush.

[hanamizu]

Bill Clinton had “No Child Left Behind”.

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No, NCLB was the final parting gift of Ted Kennedy, which GW Bush signed as a gesture of ‘bipartisanship’. The absurdity of it was that every single child in public schools would meet all educational goals.

The target was to be phased in over time. The first few years were achievable for most schools—maybe 16% of students attaining ‘proficient’ score in reading and math. The kicker was for a school to pass, every identifiable group had to hit the target—blacks, hispanics, Pacific islanders, etc., free/reduced lunch, limited English speakers, special ed. If one group didn’t make the grade, the school failed and if any school in a district failed, the district failed as well.

The target percentage for passing were increased every year, every third or fourth year it increased by a lot. Again, the target was 100% which is absurd on its face. So states started dumbing the tests down and many schools started to cheat and or teach strictly to the test.

[Liz]

Lol......nails it.