No Child Left Behind Act
is a Education centric issue
NCLB? Yeah, right
First of all, NCLB calls for mathmatically impossible results. Second, the testing used for NCLB isn't fair, because special ed students and other kids with learning disabilities obviously won't perform as well. Third, punishing the schools is NOT going to help. Any responses to this are welcome. Just try to stay civil.
I was still in school when NCLB came to be. The biggest complaint that I heard from the teachers and then I found out when test season came around is the fact that teachers will take time out of their normal curriculum to teach students how to take this particular test. So the end result is that students do not learn as much valid information or if the teachers don't teach the test the district is penalized. I think making schools accountable for their students is a terrific idea this is just not quite the correct way to do so.
I am a teacher and the system is so screwed up. For instance, if a school's entire SYSTEM (we have over 40 schools) misses reaching one demographic, the entire system is considered to be non-compliant. We are forced to give one multiple choice test after another, plus "benchmark" exams, and we wonder why we're so far behind the rest of the world in higher-order thinking skills. How many times have we been faced with multiple choice tests in the real world? NCLB is a good idea but is implemented in the wrong way. Tests don't equal learning.
I HAVE TO REALLY DISAGREE WITH ON IT BEENING A GOOD IDEA IT WA SNEVE RA GOOD IDEA FROM THE GET GO THE REASON IS THIS IT DOES NOT WORK AN DNEVER WILL WHY YOU MAY ASK WELL I HAVE TWO GIRLS AND IT IS NOT WORKING FOR THEM AND THEY ARE NOT LEARING LIKE THEY SHOULD IN MY OPION I THINK BUSH IS A IDOIT AND HE WANT ARE CHILDREN TO BE ALSO MAYBE ONE OF ARE CHILDREN MIGHT JUST HAVE THE BRAINS TO BRING ARE TROOPS HOME
I know in my last few post some words might be miss spelled and i am sorry for that let me try this again . I do believe in arithmetic i was great at math maybe,not spelling i will say , but that is not the case the fact in my opion the no child left behind does not work i will have to agree with my father-in-law ronald vandevender . Now it might work for you state where you are but, it is not working for our state of montana.
