has the No Child Left Behind Act improved public education? why or why not?

Answer 1

The children that were behind before are even father behind now. When I was in school they taught Algebra in the 9th grade. Now they start teaching it in the 4th grade. It's crazy! They want speed. I want accuracy.

My own son(plus about 15 other children) have had to miss their noon recess and stay after school all week last week and who knows how much longer because he can't pass a time test in his math class.

I don't care how long it takes him to do something as long as he gets it right. I think that he is getting so disappointed in himself because he can't do it fast enough that he says he is stupid. They are sending the wrong message to our children if the kids are feeling this way.

Answer 2

The idea behind NCLB, to make schools accountable for student performance, is a noble one. However, I don't think you can ever legislate that idea at the national level. How do we know if teachers are effective? How do we know if students are learning? Standardized tests are not always a good indicator of what students know or can use.

We need to figure out what the purpose of secondary public education is in this country. Is it to prepare students to go to college, tech school, university, community college, somewhere to increase their education level after high school, or is it to give students basic life skills so they can be successful and contributing members of society, or is it a little of both? I personally believe these questions can best be answered at the local level.

Answer 3

I am not to sure what act your asking about or where your from, but I can say if you look at the human race as a whole it is not to far off from the animal kingdom, I.E survival of the fittest, in the animal kingdom the weak do not survive they get eaten by the strong. In the human race we elect officials who see that there has to be a thinning of the herd because the rich can't get richer if they have to take care of the weak so they give you the impression that they are doing something and really all they are doing is giving a placebo to the masses.Do you think that there is any good effects of smoking cigarettes? Or do you think that there is any country out there where the government has been doing anything at all to ensure that all the week are taken care of truly. Our governments give themselves big raises and large pension's do all of the things to make there wallets fat. I do believe that once a politician always a get richer politician nothing a have seen yet in my world has me believing anything differant.

Answer 4

I do not feel that NCLB has really improved education in my area. I'm studying to be a high school English teacher and, as far as I can tell, NCLB in Kentucky has only caused more paperwork for teachers and more "teaching to the test" methods. Also, there seems to be a double standard in KY because we already have KERA...the NCLB requirements and the KERA requirements are an interesting combination. I'm sure that NCLB has improved some aspects of education somwhere...it can't be all that bad, especially since it aims at accountability.

Answer 5

as a student, i can tell you that this act is VERY VERY damaging to my education. Because of this act, i am forced to take a remedial Aims test that does not reflect my academic abilities because if it was written to my level of comprehension it would be "unfair to the slower students"
i do not disagree with the acts basic idea, i believe it is important for everyone to get an education even if they don't get some ideas as easily as other students, i know what that's like, Ive been there too, but just because some of the students are having a hard time does not mean that the rest of us, who have great potential, should be limited because of them.
i just wish it worked a different way, i don't know how to make it work, but the way things are now, its just failing, which ironically, is exactly what its trying to prevent.

Answer 6

It has yet to realize the potential harm it is capable of. Bulldozing States rights is common these days but nothing they could do is capable of more harm than this.

Consider there are 50 States conducting education. We have 50 experiments going on. We can compare and learn from the other States. Now all 50 States are focused on what some suits in Washington think is important. Naturally we can expect progress to slow in education technology as we zoom in on the test. We can expect durable knowledge that may not exist as multiple choice questions to disappear. But what becomes likely is that we can reverse direction without any reference such as other states to give us a wake up call when we screw up. This is the tragedy of centralization and why centralized governments seem retarded.

Answer 7

Categorically not. It is an overly zealous and misguided pedagogical trend to make sure that every child's "self-esteem" remains intact at all costs because we wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings by making them repeat a year. But it is a paradox because these children's self-esteem has absolutely no chance of remaining intact when they are advanced to levels that they cannot handle and once in real life they flounder. This policy has promoted nothing except the acceptance and advancement of mediocrity not only in education but in our society in general. There is an absolutely excellent book written by William A. Henry called "In Defense of Elitism" (available through Amazon) which shows how our North American (US & Canada) school systems are failing students and society by DUMBING DOWN our children. It should be mandatory reading for everyone involved with education including parents.

Answer 8

It's improved public education in that it's forced teachers and schools to pay attention to low-performing students. That's about it. It's a flawed system with a nice sentiment.

Answer 9

i replace into in intense college whilst this transformation into carried out. And no. In my journey it bogged down the learning for the extra stepped forward pupils, so we found out lots much less and continuously had to end. Secondly, it made the struggles extra good on the less stepped forward pupils. So extremely no, i think of it has created a burden on pupils extra often than not.

Answer 10

In my opinion no - I am studying to be an elementary teacher in Texas and basically what it caused here is students must pass standardized testing in order to go to the next grade, which in turn caused no recess, art, music, drama, etc. and put in place drilling, and unnecessary stress for the kids!