NCLB Remains Fundamentally Flawed and Severely Underfunded
By Dennis Van Roekel, a 23-year teaching veteran and longtime activist and advocate for children and public education, Van Roekel is president of the 3.2 million-member National Education Association. As NEA President, he leads the nation's largest labor union and advocate for quality public schools.
From the beginning, the National Education Association offered widespread support for No Child Left Behind’s goals— raising student achievement for all students, closing achievement gaps among various groups of students, and ensuring that every child has a quality teacher. Yet, while NCLB has the right goals, the law remains fundamentally flawed and severely underfunded.
NCLB is based on a test-label-punish approach to schools and signaled a drastic shift from earlier interpretations of the federal role in education. The law established top-down, one-size-fits-all, federally prescriptive testing and accountability mandates with rigid, unrealistic deadlines. The federal government demanded outcomes from schools without providing the inputs, like sufficient funding, which created an $86 billion gap between promised and actual funding.
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This book proves that the NEA has reports that American kids are one of the dumbest kids in the world! If you havent read the book I would recommend it because it gives states on International testing of all countries and its embarassing to see how far down the totem pole American kids fall.
a pile of dung. That was only slightly exaggerated! The point is you cannot improve a system that is inherantly flawed and the only hope is to throw it out and start over, which as we know, will never happen.
So without vouchers parents are left with only one choice and that is to remove their children from a hedonistic, masochistic and sadistic, government ran school system. I just watched the most amazing video by Molotov Mitchell titled, " Government schools are killing America" and while some will disagree I think most Christian parents value their spiritual condition of their childrens lives a tad bit more than the secular humanist population curently dominating the education system and would agree the only option is to remove your children asap! See this awesome video at: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=107327 scroll down and choose the video listed above, you wont be sorry.
So to answer the question has no child let behind improved public education, well only if chocolate sause improves a pile of dung.