Tag Archives: nclb

I’m Linking To This Because My Wife’s A Public School Teacher Now.

August 21, 2008 – 01:32 pm

From the Progressive’s One Teacher’s Cry: Why I Hate No Child Left Behind: “No Child Left Behind is a symptom of a larger problem: the attack on public education itself. Like the school choice effort, which uses public funds to finance private schools and cherry-pick the best students, No Child Left Behind is designed to [...]

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Most States Fail Demands in Education Law

July 25, 2006 – 10:47 am

According to the New York Times, “Most states failed to meet federal requirements that all teachers be ‘highly qualified’ in core teaching fields and that state programs for testing students be up to standards by the end of the past school year.” In other words, while no child may be left behind, there’s a good [...]

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No Child Left Behind: No World Opened Up

March 25, 2006 – 07:14 pm

The NY Times is reporting that a survey by the Center on Education policy has “found that since the passage of the federal [No Child Left Behind law], 71 percent of the nation’s 15,000 school districts had reduced the hours of instructional time spent on history, music and other subjects to open up more time [...]

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