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December
11-29-2007, 11:30 PM
When George W. Bush was running for pres he wanted to make life for the senior citizens easier and he was also singing No child left behind song...

And?... :question: :question:

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December
12-01-2007, 03:47 PM
Does anyone know?...
ECW
12-01-2007, 04:04 PM
He underfunded it and it is a shell of what it should have been which is something to hold American schools accountable for teaching children what they need to know.

As far as providing information to recruiters, parents are allowed to "opt out" of providing that information to the military. I've seen it done hundreds of times. It's just that most parents are not aware that they can.
December
12-01-2007, 04:39 PM
He underfunded it and it is a shell of what it should have been which is something to hold American schools accountable for teaching children what they need to know.

Yeah... I thought so... All money went to fund the wars.
So is the program absolutely dead?
ECW
12-02-2007, 04:44 AM
No. But it is stunted and wobbly. The next president, if it a Democrat, may kill it and replace it with something that might work better or fully fund the program so that it will work the way it was intended but also allowing certain areas to opt out if they can meet a standard in doing so. But that's just my opinion.
ViolaLee
12-02-2007, 05:26 AM
It's not a good program. It causes the teachers to teach for the tests alone because the teachers are judged on how well the students score.

It's not about teaching anymore. It's all about making sure the students score well.
Pookie
12-02-2007, 12:31 PM
I've heard my neighbors with kids say the same thing, ViolaLee. And I think ECW is right about what happened to it.
Purrs,
Pookie
AnnEsthesia
12-02-2007, 01:55 PM
Yep. We have a great school system here, but even they spend time making sure the kids are ready for those tests. Any child that does not meet the school average has the full force of the school and special teachers thrown at them so that the school score does not go down.
Archasgame5
12-02-2007, 03:51 PM
Education is a difficult thing to monitor from the top.

For the better or worse, the quality of education is a product of the effort and will of any school's administrators and faculty.
ECW
12-03-2007, 05:50 AM
No one method will improve the test scores and abilities of students. NCLB is one way but not the only way. Testing for concept comprehension is a more difficult task that NCLB does not address yet learning facts without the accompanying theories is a fruitless exercise since without the overall ideas to imbed the facts into, facts are pretty much worthless bits of trivia.

Once a school develops a way or has a core of teachers that can interpret whether students understand underlying theories, testing for facts is a pointless operation that proves little.