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Thursday, December 21, 2006

 

End No Child Left Behind

By Educator Roundtable: The Educator Roundtable launched an online petition drive to repeal the 2002 reauthorization of ESEA, the so called No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)... Aside from being an ineffective way to educate children, the new educational culture of NCLB is patently destructive. Our children, in lieu of being prepared for contributive citizenship in our democracy, or even being prepared for the world of work, are being reduced to nothing more than passers of minimum competency tests... For what purpose then does public schooling exist? Do we school to help all children develop into critical, reflective, engaged participants of their communities, or do we school to try to meet the expectations of ill-informed legislators and lobbyists who clearly have no interest in your children?

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i dont get it. i thought the no child left behind was a good thing that both parties agreed to. even ed kennedy was all for it. so what gives?
 
What sounds good in Washington D.C. doesn't always play out so well across America...
 
I think NCLB was poorly conceived to begin with but then Bush withheld funding when it might have helped some. But in any case, it's yet another failure.
 
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