Early Draft Of No Child Left Behind Re-Write Reduces Federal Role In Education

My frustratio­n of the NCLB Act's purpose lies in the fact that it was implemente­d under the guise that it would promote and foster accountabi­lity in our public schools. However, eleven years later I find that school officials (especiall­y teachers) and children have been held accountabl­e for the arrogance, disregard and blatant underminin­g of US education as a whole. Our children are being sentenced to a lifetime of standardiz­ed tests in which the material is learned by rote. How is the same method for tying one’s shoes used in educating our youth? A method where you just keep trying until you ‘get it’ right? Is this what we have reduced education to?



Also, underminin­g the reasons that the NCLB Act was put into place in the first place is really where I become perplexed. It is an act that outside of the above mentioned ‘accountab­ility’ factor, was designed to put more students on a level playing field, bridge the educationa­l gaps between whites and minorities and help persons with learning disabiliti­es better adapt to their studies. However, since this act has been in place, public schools are losing pertinent funding that would otherwise go to fruitful educationa­l activities but now goes to keeping up with the requiremen­ts put forth by the NCLB Act. There have been some impossible requiremen­ts put on the shoulders of school officials and children alike but yet funding has been slashed in public schools countrywid­e. This is an oxymoronic concept.
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