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- No Child Left Behind, an American educational reform.
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The alternative to NCLB is to keep producing kids that are barely literate.
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My main take on NCLB is that it was a way to show in a powerful and public way how many schools are failing to do what they were thought to be doing.
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NCLB is deeply, deeply flawed, having a lot to do with standardized test scores and relatively little to do with schooling children to be curious, informed, and responsible citizens.
Duncan: Smart Is Cooler Than Ever - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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The main effect of NCLB is to limit student access to learning.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How President Obama is bringing real education reform to Colorado
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Too many of our reading programs in this country are put together in a rather random and haphazard way, even though NCLB is trying to remedy this situation.
Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding & Spelling Instruction « Books « Literacy News
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Another negative offshoot of NCLB is the role of standardized tests has taken a punitive accountability.
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Even if NCLB is not reauthorized, and even if, as is likely, no more money is approved for Race to the Top, Obama's key education initiative so far, there are key elements of the Obama education agenda that Republicans will surely find attractive.
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Look at W. and social security reform -- a big idea, and a continuation of much of his domestic public agenda from the first term NCLB, Medicare entitlements, etc.
"I would rather do the right thing and have 1 term than be mediocre and have 2."
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This is why the various steps of remediation in NCLB and other reform efforts have been such abysmal failures. —
Does This Analysis of Test Scores Make Any Sense? A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
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As such, her speech would have been a huge inspiration to your projected audience, as I don't know a single classroom teacher who honestly thinks NCLB is a good thing.
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