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Originally Posted by NCB
The flaw in the NCLB is that it was enacted. If the GOPers in Congress had the nads, they would rightfully repeal the law and abolish the Dept of Ed all together.
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I agree entirely. I am somewhat a product of the prototype of this program they ran in Texas. The tests are absurdly easy, but then again, I was in the "
affluent" school district (according to NY Times). The teachers take a week or two before the test to
teach the test.
I don't know how beneficial this would be in the inner city and rural areas. Everyone I know scored in the 97+ percentile. I guess the goal is to identify problems and have accountability, but if a teacher can get kids to pass these things, I would get my kids the fuck out of that school district as fast as I could.
NCLB may identify problems, but I see little in how it is supposed to fix them.