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LUVMBDiesels · #7 01-12-2009, 01:06 PM

There are problems with NCLB

1) W enacted it so the teachers automatically hate it.

2) NCLB means that teachers are being held accountable for the student's scores. The AFT hates this

3) NCLB means that teachers have to teach actual hard facts instead of teaching self esteem.

4) NCLB goes back to a system of teaching that existed before 'new math', 'authentic literature', and other so called progressive teaching methods that came out of Columbia University's Teacher's College in the 1970's.

This mandate should not be a cost increasing one. The money for it should be found in the normal teaching budget as teachers should be teaching the things detailed in NCLB anyway.

For what it's worth, it has been a success. I read an article about a school in Richmond that had been an utter failure. Since NCLB things have been improving rapidly.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/850gvneh.asp

If NCLB had existed in the 1980s I probably would have continued my teaching certificate. I basically left the program over the dogma being rammed down student teacher's throats by Teacher's College -- Oh boy, you had better toe the party line and not exhibt any differences or you will be cast out!