Education:  No Child Left Behind

'Primer' on NCLB from Education Week on the Web

Gerald Bracey on NCLB

Many Children Left Behind : How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

 

• Public school push-outs: Unintended consequence of NCLB?
  HEM News and Commentary 4 Nov 03:  NJ Abuse case:  Were the Jackson children public school "push outs?"
  Related story:  High School Push-outs in New York
  New York City study 'Right to services' contrasted with 'discharge' rate: Pushing Out At-Risk Students (security window pop-up)
  Village Voice, NCLB's focusing on the numbers:  Testing to Create Dropouts?
   

• From the CONNECTICUT Homeschool Network
  NCLB
  Bulletin #19 An interpretation problem with No Child Left Behind and homeschoolers
  "Did you know? An already existing "fix" to a perceived problem through the federal No Child Left Behind Act, may be causing more of a problem than the one it was supposed to fix."
  Bulletin #25 No Child Left Behind
  "Did you know? The primary means that the federal government uses to regulate education is through its power enumerated in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution."
   

• CHICAGO Sun-Times:  Schools pressured to dump bad students, critics say
  "The dropout problem is largely a push-out problem for kids who'd like to stay in school," said William Leavy, director of the Greater West Town group. "Our neediest kids have the least support."
   

• NEW HAMPSHIRE:  Report puts dropout rate at 25 percent
  A memo sent to school superintendents, principals and school board chairmen from Department of Education Deputy Commissioner Paul Ezen said: “In an ongoing effort to improve data quality, this year we asked superintendents to verify that students in district-operated alternative programs were included in both dropout and enrollment counts. As a result of that process, revisions have been made to the 2001-2002 dropout report.”
  
  The Center for Public Policy Studies recommends:
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  The Legislature amend RSA 193-A and require parents of home-schooled high school students to report on whether their children have completed minimum high school graduation requirements or have terminated home-schooling without meeting those requirements.

   

• New Review of Data Shows Bush Education Policies Contributing to Taxes, Teacher Layoffs
   

• Report from FairTest:  Failing Our Children
  How "No Child Left Behind" Undermines Quality and Equity in Education
  An Accountability Model that Supports School Improvement
  FairTest's press release: Two-Year Report Card on Federal Education Reform
   

• NoChildLeft.com
  "Virtual PUBLIC Schools?
  The timing of NCLB is punitive rather than supportive. Instead of building school capacities prior to implementing this vast accountability empire, NCLB rushes to judgment, applying damaging labels and unleashing a school choice campaign that includes federal tax support for virtual elementary schools chaired by former Ed Secretary William Bennett."
   

• No Child Left Behind:  The Destruction of American Education
  "There’s a reason why home-schooling children has become the desperate and heroic option of parents who want to insure they receive a good education."
  ". . . heroic and desperate?"  Since when has being with one's own children become such an emotionally grim undertaking? Have we become so distanced from each other that the idea of living with your children as they grow is seen as something that only the brave can do?  The modern cultural view of life with children seems to be as odd as that of our modern relationship with food.  Perhaps a Slow Childhood movement should arise similar to that of the Slow Food movement.