What do you think about NCLB?

Answer 1

NCLB promotes teaching-to-the-test. It knocks out 2 weeks of the school year's curriculum to standardized testing that could be better spent educating kids. It promotes cheating with statistics, as the dropout rates vs. test scores show where the program originated in Texas (not-so-good students are held back then skipped over the grades that test; "left for a job instead of dropping out" is used for people who spend as little as one day at a temp job);it is a joke of test-rigging. The title is misleading, suggesting honorable intent. It also prevents school disctricts from concentrating worse students into a special school program at one school because no school wants a high concentration of people who'll bring down their scores. It may lead to increased segregation so there will be fewer breakdowns for a school to fail on. It makes a teacher's job much harder. It doesn't addres the problems; it does earmark time and money.