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Can the No Child Left Behind Act be revised and improved?

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NCLB

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Thank you - I agree whole-heartedly. Professional educators need to create the standards and professional assessment organizations need to create the standardized tests that we use to monitor our students. We cannot compare students fairly if they are all judged on a different testing standard. Also, one test cannot be used to determine if a third grader is passed on to the next grade level. In high-stakes testing states you will find young students in the hospital the night before these poorly written tests are taken. Everything is on the line for these kids over one test. Any reasonable person understands that you must look at the child's individual, day-to-day progress and effort given. God created us to learn and develop at different rates and this should be championed, not degraded.

Anonymous

States Rights

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Education is a public service funded by state and local taxes. When Title I and other Federal programs provided enrichment money in the 70s, they gained control over the administration of that money. Those programs were so generous that they were almost impossible to decline.

By contrast, NCLB is very expensive to administer and provides relatively sparce funding. I think it is time for states to run audits to find out whether or not they are coming out ahead on this deal. Why not just tell the Feds to take a flying leap and take back local control over OUR schools?

This program is a disaster and needs to be scrapped. Certainly, we need nationwide standards for reading, math, and other subjects, but professional organizations should follow the example of the NCTM and create these structures. People who know what they are doing creating the curriculum? What a concept!

Connie Bobo

Leave No Child Behind

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This act can work and become very meaningful in the lives of all children. Originally, it was titled Leave No Child Behind and was developed by Marion Wright Edelman, founder of Children's Defense Fund. Her mission was to empower every child by teaching them to read at an age appropriate level. She has been extremely successful in her movement. Children who can read, generally perform better in all of their courses. Instead of stealing someone elses ideas and relabeling them, perhaps President Bush should just provide her with the funding to reach more children. Currently, they have only been able to serve approximately 9000 children.

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Your question about NCLB and the article you base it on are both flawed.

The article is another case of pure Bush-bashing. When the president points out successes in NCLB, some educators are quick to shout "Not enough!" but the real problem is not with federal guidelines but with local schools, school boards, administrators, teachers and parents. We, as teachers, need to quit whining and do something for ourselves and our students. The federal government cannot make me discipline my classes nor can it make students do homework. It can't make me give my high school kids bell to bell content and well-designed assignments, and it can't make parents read to their pre-schoolers.

One of the author's primary points was that Bush's budget didn't keep up with the growth in research costs, but when I checked out the U.S. Civilian Research $ Development website, I found that millions are given in grants to programs that are meaningless to human beings or that are for other countries. Maybe the president would like to see more taxpayers' funds go to American projects that really enhance quality of human life.

The question is flawed because, again, the problem is not with NCLB, but with us as educators. When we start making education matter again and drive ourselves to prepare our students for a global economy, maybe kids would take school seriously and we could graduate more of them. I teach at a small, rural district with a very low socio-economic status, but our kids score well on standardized tests and a very high percentage graduate. But that's be cause our teachers are engaged with the students and their education, and parents are involved.

It's not NCLB or Bush, it's us!

Anonymous

No Child Left Behind

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It would take hours to explain all the ways that this act has actually pushed education backwards. Starting with not all children learn in the same way. This would take a very long time to qualify and quantify to people that are not in the classroom.

Then there is the testing of all children by grade. We are again in the middle of a large immigration. Many of these students are placed in a grade by their age rather than their academic ability.

A very important fact that surfaces is the diversion of huge amounts of money to test generating, analysis, and test preparation. Schools are spending large amount of curriculum time on test preparation. Students lose class time where learning experiences are replaced with cookie cutter activities to prepare the student for (in many cases) useless standardized tests.

What is needed is a new approach to education rather than trying to make everyone the same. We should understand that all types of people are needed to make our society. We need to make education something that people of all ages would choose rather than dread. Students need to have options about the direction of education. Will it take them in the direction they want to go? Yes we need more technical education.

Jim Hensel

NCLB

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NCLB is worse than worthless, it is damaging kids. Preping for exams without any thought as to why, is foolish. As an unfunded mandate, schools, counties and states should consider one of two options. Either ignore it, and challenge the fact that new 'rules' are in play without the money to make them happen, or to examine how much money is spent to institute federal proclamations, and how much money is actually received from the federal government. Then see what the shortfall of dollars is, and we all know that there is a shortfall, and simply refuse federal dollars, and cut all of the mandates from Washington. If local schools can not decide on their own, why does a beaurocrat some hundreds to thousands of kilometres away know how to do it better ????

Oh, that's right, such a wonderful job was done with the man who trumpets NCLB....

20 January 2009, relief.

Anonymous

fall out from NCLB

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I am curious if anyone has any information/data about the dropout rate directly related to NCLB?