Most Politicians Afraid Of Being Seen As Against A Law Called “No Child Left Behind”, so a bad law with a brilliant name will continue to leave many children behind.
Posted by Catherine Morgan on March 14, 2007
 President Bush, with students Tez Taylor and Cecilia Pallcio at Hamilton High School in Hamilton, Ohio, marks the federal No Child Left Behind law surrounded by U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), left, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), then-U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige, U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and U.S. Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio). — Photo Credit: 2002 Photo By Ron Edmonds — Associated Press |
“No Child” Target Is Called Out Of Reach – By Amit R. Paley – Washington Post Staff Writer
Here are some excerpts from this article:
But now, as Congress begins to debate renewing the law, lawmakers and education officials are confronting the reality of the approaching deadline and the difficult political choice between sticking with the vision of universal proficiency or backing away from it.
“There is a zero percent chance that we will ever reach a 100 percent target,” said Robert L. Linn, co-director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing at UCLA. “But because the title of the law is so rhetorically brilliant, politicians are afraid to change this completely unrealistic standard. They don’t want to be accused of leaving some children behind.” — READ FULL WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE
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Also See My Recent Post On WHAT DOES “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND” MEAN TO YOU?
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What Does “No Child Left Behind” Mean To You? — by Catherine Morgan
The name, “No Child Left Behind”, is a great name, and I am 100% on board with not leaving any children behind. I mean really, how can you NOT support this policy? Nobody wants to leave the children behind. It reminds me a lot of the Bush administration’s policy in Iraq, if you’re against the policy, you’re against the troops. How convenient, slap a good name on a bad policy, and humiliate everyone into accepting it. It’s really very smart when you think about it, you can take most of the hard work out of policy making, just as long as you have a good PR person to whip up a catchy name. In the long run, I think our kids would be better served with a less glamorous name, and a policy that didn’t leave them behind.
With that said, there are many aspects of this policy, and I am not going to be able to address each one on this one post. Although, as always, I am looking forward to hearing all of your views, on all sides of this issue. But, for the sake of time, I’m just going to tell you the “nuts and bolts” of why I consider, “No Child Left Behind”, to be just a glorified name, masquerading as good public policy. You might want to check this site out as well, Gambling with the Children………………………..CLICK HERE TO SEE MY FULL POST
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in2thefray said
NCLB is a perfect example of how government tries to fix something that they didn’t build right in the first place. I’m working on a series of posts that highlights the failure that is A.P.E.S. The American Public Education System.
Catherine Morgan said
Let me know when you post on this, so I can check it out. Thanks.
in2thefray said
This is the tag line that shows the posts. Currently they are short and quick to get through and see the related info. in2thefray.wordpress.com/tag/education/
I’ll be checking back with you since you seem to have a lot of info that would allow different views.(something I crave)Thank you and keep up the good work on a very diverse site.
Catherine Morgan said
Thanks.
RonaLee said
Just discovered you. Hope you read old blogs.
I may sound heartless but some children should be left behind. A child that does not want to learn makes learning unnecessarily harder for students that are trying to learn. A disruptive student can end all discussion before it begins. I know I have been a substitute teacher for five years. I have seen levels of students in classes that want to learn all the way to kids in classes that want to be anywhere else. Classes that have both types of students give the disruptive student more influence than then student who wants to learn.
Catherine Morgan said
I agree, something does need to be done about disruptive students. But, there are many more children that really do want to learn, that are being left behind because of this administrations policies. These are complicated problems and will require complicated solutions, I just hope something is done soon.
Thanks for your comment.
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