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TV Preview: Hard Times At Douglas High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card
2008-06-22 16:20:00 Much was made of the Bush No Child Left Behind initiative, on the outside it looked great, every school child would benefit, and as a result America would once more be an education leader. Smarter school kids equals a smarter workforce, which makes us a stronger and more competitive country. Alas ideology does not equal ...
[Sad] No Child Left Behind in it?s most literal sense; failing HS juniors a
2008-04-21 07:46:00 KnoxNews
Senator Chuck Hagel On Hannity & Colmes: Stop Big Government Spending, the
2008-04-12 00:09:00 So on March 26th, Senator Chuck Hagel the Great (R-NE) was interviewed by Sean Hannity the Great (R) and Alan Colmes (D) on the Hannity & Colmesshow, to discuss the war in Iraq, conservativism, government spending, and his new book America: Our Next Chapter: Tough Questions, Straight Answers. Here’s a video of the interview: And here’s a ...
No Child Left Behind - Federally Financed Tutoring
2008-04-04 07:00:00 The No Child Left Behind Law allows students in schools that have fallen short of performance goals to get free tutoring. With more and more schools and students being classified as ‘failing’, more families are looking into tutoring. As a result of this, tutoring has become a booming private enterprise. Up to 600,000 ...
By: Resources zone
Hillary Clinton Flip-Flops on No Child Left Behind
2008-03-06 03:06:00 Here is a press release from Hillary Clinton back in 2002, praising NCLB as "a major step forward" and taking credit for some of its provisions. She 1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Why ‘No Child Left Behind’ Should be Scrapped
2008-01-07 19:29:00 sfgate.com: America’s schools have fallen into a giant trap. This trap is epic in its dimensions, because the people capable of leading us out of it have been silenced, and the initiative that could help us is being systematically squashed. Policymakers and the public have been seduced by a simple formulation. No Child Left Behind posits that we have troubled schools because they have not been accountable. If we make teachers and schools pay a price for the failure of their students, they will bring those students up to speed. But schools are NOT the only factor determining student success. Urban neighborhoods are plagued by poverty and violence and recent reports in The Chronicle show that as many as 30 percent of the children in these neighborhoods suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Fully 40 percent of our students are English learners, but these students must take the same tests as native English speakers. Moreover, a recent study provides strong evidence that fam...
By: Thought-Blender
Iowa December 12 Republican Debate
2007-12-12 22:09:00 Here’s my ratings of the Debate in Iowa today… Paul - By far the winner in my mind. Romney - Slipped up at the beginning arguing with Fred, but he let it go, but had a great debate other than that. Huckabee - A good debate overall. Tancredo - A good overall debate McCain - A good debate, probably tied ...
No Child Left Behind
2007-11-08 00:29:00 In this case we're talking about the president's bro' Neil Bush. Neil's been sucking hind tit for so long (that's Texas speak). The Bushies are takin' care of little Neil by sendin' him guv'mint bidness. Neil's Texas company Ignite Learning collected at least cool mil from the No Child Left Behind program. Neil's latest venture sells educational materials to schools. "COW" - Curriculum On Wheels." The Bush "BOW" - Bitch On Wheels Barbara, is an investor along with George Herbert Walker, George W., and Miz Laura. Neil would've stayed under the radar if it weren't for a watchdog group that is now forcing the Bush regime to conduct a phony investigation. Neil had no problem leaving his wife of 22 years behind for a younger babe who worked for his mother. The ex-Mrs. Bush helped her husband get over the 1980s savings and loan debacle when he was sued for $50 mil in the Silverado S & L collapse. CBS News The bitter divorce ignited The War Of The Bushes where the slimy Nei...
By: Chickaboomer
The No Child Left Behind win-win: profits for testing companies and anti-pu
2007-10-29 00:00:00 Found this while perusing the Sunday paper: Over the last two years, 23 states across the country have added more than 11.3 million reading and math tests to their school curricula in order to keep up with the requirements of...
No Child Left Behind to be left behind?
2007-09-25 06:01:00 In name anyway. Because the name is too tied to Bush and Bush is unpopular. (Those were Representative George Miller's, D-CA, words, not mine.)So in all of the debate that has supposedly been surrounding NCLB this year as it comes up for reauthorization, all that we were really able to accomplish was a name change. Here are the suggestions, from the Washington Post:Quality Education for All Children Act, submitted by Marian Wright Edelman, president of the nonprofit Children's Defense Fund.Children First! submitted by Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami.New Partnerships for Student Achievement or Educating Americans for Today's World, submitted by Dorothy Rich, founder and director of the nonprofit Home and School Institute. (I thought we were supposed to be educating for the future?)The first one actually sounds like something. Believe it or not, I sort of like it. With a name like that, the legislation has to be good, even if it is the same old legislatio...
Local Blogger Says, "No Child Left Behind Should Be Left To Die," And I Agr
2007-09-16 17:00:00 Local blogger Aphrodite's Daughter posted her take on the No Child Left Behind Act over at the Lehigh Valley Political Blog. As a former teacher who has experienced the effects of the NCLB act, it's worth taking a look at what she has to say.As a teacher-to-be hopeful, I have been paying much attention to the NCLB act. I do believe that the intentions of this act were good, but the results have actually proven to be for the worst. The NCLB act should be dropped from the books.Check out Aphrodite's Daughter's post here.
By: AJ's Web Blog
Neil Bush Cashes In on No Child Left Behind
2007-09-14 15:54:00 AlterNet: Blogs Recently, a three-month investigation by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) revealed that schools are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars, including No Child Left Behind funds, on Neil Bush's COWs. "It is astonishing that taxpayer dollars are being spent on unproven educational products to the financial benefit of the president's brother," CREW's executive director, Melanie Sloan, said in a press release. [..] the Education Department's Inspector General "should investigate whether children's educations are being sacrificed so that Neil Bush can rake in federal funds," considering that Neil Bush was also on the receiving end a couple years back of cash donated by his mother, Barbara, to a Hurricane Katrina relief fund co-operated by his father, George H.W.--cash specifically earmarked for purchase of his COWs for storm ravaged schools--I'm gonna go ahead and say the answer is yes.
No Child Left Behind Law A Disaster for Inner City Schools
2007-09-11 06:20:00 UNDERVIEWS The poisonous essence of [the federal education law No Child Left Behind] lies in the mania of obsessive testing it has forced upon our nation's schools and, in the case of underfunded, overcrowded inner-city schools, the miserable drill-and-kill curriculum of robotic "teaching to the test" it has imposed on teachers, the best of whom are fleeing from these schools because they know that this debased curriculum would never have been tolerated in the good suburban schools that they, themselves, attended. The justification for this law was the presumptuous and ignorant determination by the White House that our urban schools are, for the most part, staffed by mediocre drones who will suddenly become terrific teachers if we place a sword of terror just above their heads and threaten them with penalties if they do not pump their students' scores by using proto-military methods of instruction -- scripted texts and hand-held timers -- that will rescue them from doing any thi...
"Disastrous Consequences of No Child Left Behind"
2007-08-27 18:02:00 Those were the frightening words used by Susan Goodkin and David Gold in their Washington Post article describing the way No Child Left Behind--the new educational law of the land--is leaving gifted children behind. They document the steady bleeding of the best and the brightest students from public schools as their parents place them in private schools. Their actions are easy to understand. The new law essentially forces teachers to focus their efforts on bringing the lowest students to minimum proficiency. Just by itself, the ensuing neglect of the brightest students represents a massive problem. But things are even worse.
No Child Left Behind Act in need of supporters in Congress
2007-08-02 20:36:00 The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is a U.S. federal law signed on January 8, 2002, by President George W. Bush. It aims at improving the performance of primary and secondary schools by increasing accountability standards for states, schools districts and schools, and giving more choice to parents in choosing schools where their ...
By: RightWingWorld
Is it even possible to fix our education system?
2007-07-13 05:56:00 While contemplating how we might go about solving our nation's education problems, it was tempting to begin by getting rid of the union. But employees should have the right to organize and use their collective power as leverage to negotiate with employers. Perhaps even more so when the employer is as powerful as the state. And the problem isn't really with the union, anyway. If it weren't so politicized, it likely would be a great asset to American education.So I'd like to say that the problem is with the politicization of education. Get rid of the money. Get rid of the education lobby. Get rid of the federal government's involvement all together. Return to local control and the idea that the people best qualified to make decisions about a child's education are the parents and his teachers. But that isn't really the problem with education, either.Unfortunately, most of the "problems" we see in education are really only symptoms. The first real problem with American ...
Candidate Votes On No Child Left Behind
2007-07-03 19:45:00 Now that the immigration bill has been defeated, the next debate looming on Capitol Hill is the debate on the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind. We thought it would be important now to take a look back and see how all the candidates voted on it. In the House, Reps. Kucinich and Hunter voted for it. ...
By: 2008 Central
Evaluating ?No Child Left Behind?
2007-05-04 18:22:00 As Congress begins to consider reauthorization of the Bush Administration's 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, The Nation asked Linda Darling-Hammond, a leading education expert, to examine the law, its consequences and prospects for improving the legislation. Those responding in this forum include sociologist and author Pedro Noguera, longtime educator and National Urban League vice president Velma L. Cobb and senior NYU scholar and veteran school principal Deborah Meier. --The Editors
By: Current Era Blog
Federal Investigators Say President Bush?s ?No Child Left Behind? = HUGE SC
2007-04-21 09:01:00 This one’s SURE to fall underneath the headlines since everybody’s still too busy arguing with each other over whether the time to disarm RESPONSIBLE American Citizens has arrived in the wake of the Virginia Tech slayings by an INCREDIBLY irresponsible gun owner… Key Initiative Of ‘No Child’ Under Federal Investigation Officials Profited From Reading First Program By ...
Suggested Reading (No Child Left Behind)
2007-03-21 19:51:00 Since my post on the No Child Left Behind law, I've received a few e-mails. One was from a publicist at the University of Michigan Press. She suggested I read No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools.According to the descriptions, author Scott Franklin Abernathy writes of the success and failures within the NCLB program. Additionally, he seeks the answer to the unasked question, "can we ever really know if a child's education is good?"I haven't had a chance to read this book yet, but I hope to in the near future. If anyone has any critiques on this publication, feel free to e-mail me, or leave some comments to this post.To order, or read some critiques on the book, click here.
By: AJ's Web Blog
Support weak for No Child Left Behind
2007-03-21 17:07:00 WASHINGTON, March 21: U.S. President George Bush's No Child Left Behind education reform law comes is up for renewal in Washington and some of its biggest critics are Republicans.
By: newkerala.com
No Child Left Behind - - Except by Congress!
2007-01-09 02:37:00 According to NewsLeader, congress left for their winter vacation having voted to "keep federal education programs running at their FY 2006 levels through February 15, 2007." It was also reported that while committing only to maintain level funding through February of 2007, the appropriations committee officials "intend to continue those funding levels until the end of the current fiscal year." The fact that millions are lost to educational programs is absolutely inexcusable, especially while the current administration continues to promote the flawed NCLB as a hallmark accomplishment. The absolute hypocrisy of this move cannot be ignored at a time when the President presses Congress to reauthorize NCLB! According to NewsLeaders the list of the biggest losers in this move are:- Striving Readers, which would have received a $5.3 million increase from FY 2006 funding.- The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which would have received almost $100 million more than in FY 2...
Guest Editorial: Repeal No Child Left Behind
2006-12-29 16:19:04 THE FOLLOWING IS the forty-first guest editorial to be featured on this blog. The guest editorials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of Steven Sieber, and are posted here to promote discussion. As such, the opinions expressed here are those of the guest editorial author only. Repeal No Child Left Behind by George Phillies The American future is going to be very different from its past. Our children and grandchildren will live in a world in which originality, creativity, and meticulous workmanship are prized. Thoughtless assembly line tasks will be done by robots. People who adapt to new circumstances and tools will thrive. People who choose not to change may find life is more challenging. We all want a bright, happy life for future generations. How can we best help our children? To give our children and grandchildren the shining future of that sunlit city on the hill, we must give them the most effective education that we can. We must give them an education that prepares t...
By: Middle America
How No Child Left Behind Leaves Children Behind
2006-12-29 02:20:00 In the New York Times and in his blog yesterday Daniel Goleman wrote an excellent description of performance and stress in the face of testing. It was a message to those considering the No Child Left Behind Act soon to be up for Congressional debate. I made the following comment: No Child Left Behind is ...
By: Men Are Easy
No Child Left Behind - Federally Financed Tutoring
1969-12-31 19:00:00 The No Child Left Behind Law allows students in schools that have fallen short of performance goals to get free tutoring. With more and more schools and students being classified as ‘failing’, more families are looking into tutoring. As a result of this, tutoring has become a booming private enterprise. Up to 600,000 ...
No Child Left Behind…There’s More Cheating than Ever, and the
0000-00-00 00:00:00 As a parent, I have had many a conversation with my child about cheating - whether it be at school, in Little League or at home playing Monopoly. You know, the usual "cheaters-never-win; winners-never-cheat" discourse. Well apparently we should not only be drilling in the consequences of cheating to our ...
By: Daily Cents Blog
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