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If the government wants to keep NCLB, they need to fund it. Period. And they need to stop punishing low-performing schools by taking their funding away. That's ridiculous.
That said, I would prefer to see it killed. It does nothing to improve or facilitate actual learning or actual teaching on the part of educators. It allows lazy teachers to teach to a test. Furthermore, I see more time spent in lower-scoring classrooms on skills that focus around how to take a test versus skills that will actually give them a good foundation beyond how to take a standardized test. It's also caused a proliferation of similar testing in schools, which is not a good way of assessing actual learning. Schools are testing students more and more often, and in some schools, it's dehumanizing them; these students are becoming nothing more than a test score to their teachers and administrators. There is something seriously wrong with that.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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