How effective is the No Child Left Behind Law? What are the strengths and weaknesses? Use evidence from the simulation to inform your response.
12 comments:
Christine
said...
I do not think the No Child Left Behind Law is helpful at all because it is not improving the test scores. In the Boston English High school over 50% of their students failed the test and were held back or transferred out. They were not given the chance to improve. What they need to do is set up a program after school or during the summer that will help the kids to better their test scores.
I don't think it is helping at all. All it is doing is restricting the kids that really want to learn and holding them back. With no child left behind, the teachers must focus more on problem children instead of bettering the kids that strive to better themselves. Neither does it better test scores, because it just transfers kids that can't keep up out of good schools and into public schools, so the good schools averages don't drop, but the kids never get the help that they need. If no child left behind worked with kids and created programs to get the help they need, then it might actually begin to help people. But the way it is now, it is just hindering schools, and still not getting kids the help they need. -Emily
Christine, What are the strengths and weaknesses of the way that the law worked? Discuss the process of having to deal with test scores, raising money, and using money from the government to improve.
Emily, Your explanation of thew weakness of the NCLB law was very well stated. What SPECIFIC step did you take that you think SHOWS the weakness you speak of? Also, were there any strengths?
You make a very powerful claim about the NCLB law. Here is your statement:
"They dumb down the rest of us so others can catch up."
Did you notice this happening at all DURING the simulation? Which step was taken at your school(Brookline, Boston Arts, or English) that seemed to show this issue?
Cheyenne Marshall - the no child left behind law is not helpful. I believe it doesnt improve anything or makes anything better for the students. Such as test scores, to help kids improve there scores, the should come up with better ways to help students improve in test. Most of the kids fail there test or they just make it to passing the test!
I think that they No Child Left Behind law is ineffective in inner city schools. Inner city school have 2 times as many issues as suburban or choice schools. This is because their is a high population of students that do not know English, immigrants, uninterested, and unfocused. By forcing schools to improve test scores, students are being left behind. The schooling process should be a quick and easy process for students, teachers and faculty. By forcing schools to focus on passing test some students who are new to this country may not be prepared, and may be help back for years before they are able to pass them. In the Boston English school, i had many students that were being held back, because they were not passing test. The majority of my students that did not pass test, did not pass them because they either were mentally challenged or they did not understand English. This can all be solved if schools in the inner city were run under a different program, targeted to help mentally challenged students and immigrants (generation1-2). If a new program is not made many school will be shut down and then many students would be "Left behind".
i dont think that the no child left behind law is helpful because it dosent seem to be working. test scores arent improving nd now more kids are staying back because they are not passing these test
I don't think that the no child left behind law is very effective. Schools have not seen any kind of dramatic improvement since the law was put into place. There are still students that have a lot of difficulties doing well on standardized tests, and there are still students that don't even want to be in school. I dont think that law doesnt have much of a point really.
Dijon, You make a good point that there are number of students have issues with learning that are complicated by the logic of testing them more. I would be curious to know, what sort of "program" you would suggest for these students?
12 comments:
I do not think the No Child Left Behind Law is helpful at all because it is not improving the test scores. In the Boston English High school over 50% of their students failed the test and were held back or transferred out. They were not given the chance to improve. What they need to do is set up a program after school or during the summer that will help the kids to better their test scores.
I don't think it is helping at all. All it is doing is restricting the kids that really want to learn and holding them back. With no child left behind, the teachers must focus more on problem children instead of bettering the kids that strive to better themselves.
Neither does it better test scores, because it just transfers kids that can't keep up out of good schools and into public schools, so the good schools averages don't drop, but the kids never get the help that they need.
If no child left behind worked with kids and created programs to get the help they need, then it might actually begin to help people. But the way it is now, it is just hindering schools, and still not getting kids the help they need.
-Emily
Christine,
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the way that the law worked? Discuss the process of having to deal with test scores, raising money, and using money from the government to improve.
Emily,
Your explanation of thew weakness of the NCLB law was very well stated. What SPECIFIC step did you take that you think SHOWS the weakness you speak of? Also, were there any strengths?
Eric,
You make a very powerful claim about the NCLB law. Here is your statement:
"They dumb down the rest of us so others can catch up."
Did you notice this happening at all DURING the simulation? Which step was taken at your school(Brookline, Boston Arts, or English) that seemed to show this issue?
Cheyenne Marshall
- the no child left behind law is not helpful. I believe it doesnt improve anything or makes anything better for the students. Such as test scores, to help kids improve there scores, the should come up with better ways to help students improve in test. Most of the kids fail there test or they just make it to passing the test!
I think that they No Child Left Behind law is ineffective in inner city schools. Inner city school have 2 times as many issues as suburban or choice schools. This is because their is a high population of students that do not know English, immigrants, uninterested, and unfocused. By forcing schools to improve test scores, students are being left behind.
The schooling process should be a quick and easy process for students, teachers and faculty. By forcing schools to focus on passing test some students who are new to this country may not be prepared, and may be help back for years before they are able to pass them.
In the Boston English school, i had many students that were being held back, because they were not passing test. The majority of my students that did not pass test, did not pass them because they either were mentally challenged or they did not understand English.
This can all be solved if schools in the inner city were run under a different program, targeted to help mentally challenged students and immigrants (generation1-2).
If a new program is not made many school will be shut down and then many students would be "Left behind".
i dont think that the no child left behind law is helpful because it dosent seem to be working. test scores arent improving nd now more kids are staying back because they are not passing these test
I don't think that the no child left behind law is very effective. Schools have not seen any kind of dramatic improvement since the law was put into place. There are still students that have a lot of difficulties doing well on standardized tests, and there are still students that don't even want to be in school. I dont think that law doesnt have much of a point really.
Cheyenne,
You bring up a great point!
In your comment you said,
"...the should come up with better ways to help students improve in test."
Given your experience with the simulation, what would you do to improve public education if you had more options available to you?
Shaq,
What specifically did you see that is not working?
You said, "it dosent(sic) seem to be working."
Can you mentioned something that you noticed from the simulation or the presentations?
Dijon,
You make a good point that there are number of students have issues with learning that are complicated by the logic of testing them more. I would be curious to know, what sort of "program" you would suggest for these students?
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