NCLB misdiagnoses the causes of poor educational development, blaming teachers and students for problems over which they have no control.Maybe when there's a "No Child Living in Poverty", "No Child Without Food", "No Child in an Abusive Home", "No Child Without Healthcare", No Child Left Behind might be considered.
NCLB uses pseudo-science to justify policies and programs that are damaging public education-including diverting taxes away from communities into corporate coffers.
NCLB rates and ranks public schools using procedures that will gradually label them all "failures" by creating unrealistic Adequate Yearly Progress goals, which set schools up to be "saved" by vouchers, charters, or privatization.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
No Child Left Behind
Really, I do think No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a great idea overall, but you can't list all of the problems. I just read an article about how a woman can't teach because 40% of her class doesn't have books, and the students that do have books have books that are rotting and/or falling apart. Mind you, these books are provided by the school. Here are the problems I have with NCLB, written in a nice summary. These points are from the article mentioned above.
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I totally agree with you. I've only heard a little of what NCLB is, but it's an atrocious policy.
These fat cats running your country (and mine) are using these horrible tactics to divert attention from their own greed. Poverty is getting worse and funding to education is dropping here too.
Hope you guys and turn things around soon and thanks for stopping by my blog.
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