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Some good propaganda. 
"NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" AFTER TWO YEARS:
A TRACK RECORD OF FAILURE
The increasingly visible flaws of the "No Child Left Behind" law and the growing, bi-partisan criticisms of its provisions demonstrate that the law will do more harm than good. NCLB's test-and-punish approach to school reform relies on extremely limited, one-size-fits-all tools that reduce education to little more than test prep programs. It produces unfair decisions and requires unproven, often irrational approaches to complex educational problems. NCLB is clearly underfunded. But fully funding a bad law is not the solution. If the nation's goal really is to leave no child behind, the federal government must overhaul NCLB to ensure that assessment and accountability genuinely improve learning for all students.......
http://www.fairtest.org/nclb%20flaw%20fact...t%201-7-04.html
"NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" AFTER TWO YEARS:
A TRACK RECORD OF FAILURE
The increasingly visible flaws of the "No Child Left Behind" law and the growing, bi-partisan criticisms of its provisions demonstrate that the law will do more harm than good. NCLB's test-and-punish approach to school reform relies on extremely limited, one-size-fits-all tools that reduce education to little more than test prep programs. It produces unfair decisions and requires unproven, often irrational approaches to complex educational problems. NCLB is clearly underfunded. But fully funding a bad law is not the solution. If the nation's goal really is to leave no child behind, the federal government must overhaul NCLB to ensure that assessment and accountability genuinely improve learning for all students.......
http://www.fairtest.org/nclb%20flaw%20fact...t%201-7-04.html
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* NCLB's obsessive focus on raising test scores will mean an increasing emphasis on test preparation, undermining the higher order thinking skills all students need to succeed in work and life. Overwhelming pressure to meet test score targets makes schools focus on drilling students for the exams. "Teaching to the test" narrows the curriculum, forcing teachers and students to concentrate on memorizing isolated facts. As a result, rising test scores will not mean academic improvement. Fewer students will be prepared to be successful citizens in our society.
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Originally Posted by mikes2k,Mar 28 2006, 04:36 PM
How is your edumcation? We are smrt over here in the land of Dubya.
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Originally Posted by SR71BB,Mar 29 2006, 11:51 AM
I'm not a fan of Dubya by any stretch. But to lay blame on NCLB, the GOP, or Dubya for the lack of education of our nation's utes is an utter fallacy. A true root cause analysis would indicate the initial fault lay elsewhere. Not going to be the one to do it, but I'd wager the real issue is with the parents.
However, NCLB IS a joke! Several facts..it IS an unfunded mandate. Some states are suing the feds now due to this. Good quality teachers (young and old) are leaving primary education because of all the
associated with NCLB and its apparent effect on just how they can/can not really teach children anymore. I do applaud Dubya for attempting a new idea.
However, as policy dictates mistakes were made. He should have consulted actual teachers in the classrooms and administrators in the trenches and not just his cronies for some of the finer points of the program. Actually funding the program might have helped a bit as well.