Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 9, 2008 - 15:33.
Does anyone else have a problem with the "poll" questions? This is simply another example of gathering skewed data and then reporting that "everyone believes the law must be changed or thrown out". I would like to see a choice that states "I believe the law is fundamentally sound, and some minor revisions will make it even better."
Some of the current proposed revisions will help refine the law to make it better, but other proposed changes are simply foolish and will lessen the accountability provisions to something anyone with a pulse can meet (public education "accountability" over the last few decades). In my 20+ years in public education, the biggest improvement I have seen as a result of this law is that administrators and teachers alike are now discussing what it is that students should learn and how we will know whether they learned it. While it may seem obvious, this discussion was sadly lacking for years before NCLB.
Of course the law can be improved - but some of the proposed changes from the "professional organizations" simply eliminate any real accountability - allowing business as usual with lower income and minority students left to suffer while the system goes on unchanged.
Does anyone else have a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 9, 2008 - 15:33.
Does anyone else have a problem with the "poll" questions? This is simply another example of gathering skewed data and then reporting that "everyone believes the law must be changed or thrown out". I would like to see a choice that states "I believe the law is fundamentally sound, and some minor revisions will make it even better."
Some of the current proposed revisions will help refine the law to make it better, but other proposed changes are simply foolish and will lessen the accountability provisions to something anyone with a pulse can meet (public education "accountability" over the last few decades). In my 20+ years in public education, the biggest improvement I have seen as a result of this law is that administrators and teachers alike are now discussing what it is that students should learn and how we will know whether they learned it. While it may seem obvious, this discussion was sadly lacking for years before NCLB.
Of course the law can be improved - but some of the proposed changes from the "professional organizations" simply eliminate any real accountability - allowing business as usual with lower income and minority students left to suffer while the system goes on unchanged.