Tuesday, January 13, 2015
No Child Left Behind Rewrite Should Limit Standardized Testing, Duncan Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/12/no-child-left-behind-2015_n_6453092.html. DUE 20 Jan 2015. What is/are the major focus of NCLB?? Why does the Obama Administration want to rewrite the legislation? What major changes would be implemented? WHY is this legislation a problem to teachers and students? What future economic issues are likely to result from the quality of education in the United States (ie. NCLB)???
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The purpose of the NCLB, "which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002, mandated the annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math in some grades, and it doled out consequences based on those test results." The Obama administration is trying to change the current law, or rewrite it because it's crude and has its faults. The heavy attention on standardized testing is taking valuable time from the normal curriculum; and even though the average test results Are rising it's costing to much class room time. The Obama administration is trying to set a limit of the amount of time spent on standardized test prep. To add to the problem of taking time away from the curriculum, if a school receives bad test scores then there is little they can do to improve. If a school revives low test scores, intern they receive less funding. What is the first and easiest thing a firm can do to cut cost? The cut labor! Subjects like Arts and history, foreign languages, financial literacy, physical education, are put in the backgrounded and often teachers teaching these subjects revive pay cuts or are fired. As Duncan states ". Those are essentials, not luxuries. Teachers and principals deserve to be paid in a way that reflects the importance of the work they do." Teachers receive less pay and students don't get the quality education the deserve. Well if quality of education decreased then there is bound to be economic down turn, less people have a education that's just means technological advancement will slow down as well. I'm thinking if there is a decrease in quality education for the majority then at the very least it will cause economic grown to slow down.
ReplyDeleteThe major focus of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is to mandate the annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math in some grades and it doled out our consequences based on those test results. It was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. The Obama Administration wants to rewrite it because they think it’s time to go back to the legislative drawing board. It is taking away from classroom instruction time and too much time is spent on preparation for the tests. The new prescriptions for the law would include several perennial administration favorites such as improved access to high- quality preschools, better support for low-income schools, genuinely helpful teacher evaluation systems that "take into account student learning growth," and high standards.
ReplyDeleteThis is a big problem for teachers and students because it is at a moment when sentiments against standardized testing have reached a fever pitch. They have concerns about the new tests associated with the Common Core State Standards. If the quality of education is improved, there will be less income inequality. Students will have more equal opportunities. It will result in a better economy for the United States.
The No Child Left Behind Act required that public schools issue an annual standardized test to test students in their reading and math skills, based on the test results different consequences are doled out. The Obama administration wants to rewrite the legislation because it does more harm than good, the tests only focus on reading and math, when there are other important things such as the arts, history, sciences, physical education, financial literacy, and after-school activities, the Obama administration believes teachers should be judged on all of these things instead of purely reading and math. The changes that would be implemented include improved access to “high quality preschool”, better support for low income schools, a “genuinely helpful” teacher evaluation system, they are also working to streamline testing and eliminating unnecessary tests, and also limit the time spent on testing. If the students in a school don’t score high on a test than that school won’t be given as much money, then they won’t have enough money to support certain clubs and programs and they won’t be able to pay teachers as much, some may even get laid-off. Because of this students won’t get the education that they need, with less education the workforce of the US will be less educated, we won’t have as many aspiring doctors, professors, entrepreneurs, artists, etc., this will cause the economy to decline.
ReplyDeleteThe main focus of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policy is to mandate the annual standardizing testing of public schools in reading and math subjects. It then gives out consequences of rewards depending on the results. The policy was but in place in 2002 by President George W Bush. The Obama Administration wants to rewrite this legislation because it has many flaws. The NCLB policy takes away time from the normal curriculum, and instead focuses too much on standardized testing. The Obama Administration wants to set a limit on the amount of classroom time spent on standardized test preparation. This legislation can be a problem to teachers because if a school does not perform well on the tests, then the teachers are at rick for pay cuts or being fired. The teachers most at risk for these punishments and those that teach art, music, and PE. If the quality of education is not very good, then that could have a negative impact on future economic issues. The decrease in human capital will make it harder to find good quality, high paying jobs.
ReplyDeleteThe major purpose of the NCLB, which was incorporated into legislation our previous president George W. Bush in 2002, is to mandate the annual standardized testing distributed to public school students in the courses of Reading and Math, which created consequences based on the test results. In terms of the Obama Administration, they want to rewrite the NCLB due to the flaws and faults that the legislation has currently. NCLB provides students with tests revolving around their core subjects which in turn could benefit society, but on the same note teachers have to take their time out of their curriculum to provide and administer these tests to make sure they meet the NCLB standards.
ReplyDeleteSome major implementations are: support for the lower-income schools and improved access to higher classed preschools for parents. The legislation is a problem for teachers and students because of the implications of new tests for standardizing the students through their core subjects such as math and reading based on whether or not the qualification for the test will be more beneficial towards both students and teachers. Higher test rates will bring education levels of students to the max and will prove to be beneficial to future economic situations for the US.
The major purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act is to mandate annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math, and it has consequences that are based on those test scores. President Bush signed this act in 2002. The Obama Administration wants to rewrite this legislation because the act has too many ways for schools to fail and not enough ways to succeed. The act also resulted in schools being hyperfocused on standardized testing and in turn spending large amounts of instructional time preparing for the tests.
ReplyDeleteMajor changes that would be implemented are access to better pre-school, more support for low-income schools, improved systems for teacher evaluation, and high standards. This legislation is a problem for teachers and students because there is too much focus on standardized testing. Teachers are forced to "teach to the test" leaving minimal time for other subjects. Teachers could also face pay cuts due to poor performance on tests causing schools to receive less funding. For students, their education suffers. Students spend their school time preparing for tests, getting a lower-quality education which can negatively effect them in the long term.
Future economic issues that are likely to result from the quality of education in the United States are decreased productivity as a result of a less educated population. Another issue could be allocation of tax funds to education. Schools may receive more or less funding due to their students performance on standardized testing. This could further worsen the education situation.
The major focus of the NCLB is to mandate that public schools give out annual standardized tests in order to see whether the students are capable in both their math and reading skills. The results of how well they score on the test will give out different consequences. The Obama administration thinks that it is better if they rewrite the NCLB legislation because right now it feels like it is more of a detriment than a benefit. This is because they see the tests as only focusing on two major subjects, math and reading while other major subjects such as art, financial literacy and economics, history, physical education, and extracurricular events are being neglected in students’ lives. Some changes that would be implemented consists of higher support for lower income schools, a facilitated way into a “high quality preschool”, a teacher evaluation system, and the elimination of unnecessary testing while bringing in more strict time limits for tests themselves.
ReplyDeleteThe NCLB legislation is considered to be a major problem for teachers and students alike since teachers will have to spend a majority of their time teaching students in the core subjects of math and reading in order to prepare them for all their upcoming standardized tests they must take. This means that the teachers are required to teach these core subjects more often leaving little to no room for other important subjects that was previously mentioned. Also, if teachers do not prepare their students well for the standardized tests, then they will be reprimanded with pay cuts and that means the students education would be affected as well since they will be likely getting a lower quality education that would not be beneficial to them for a standardized test or even further along their school career. Further economic issues that are likely to result from the quality of education in the United States would be a lower productivity level for the economy because the education level in the United States would be lower as well. Also, schools with high standardized test scores will be rewarded with more funds to their school while schools with low test scores would get less funding. If a school’s students’ have low standardized test scores, then they would receive less funding, making it harder for the school to help their students obtain a better education to score higher on these standardized tests.
The major focus of No Child Left Behind is standardized testing. That legislation primarily tested reading and math capabilities. Based on the scores that students obtained on those tests, certain consequences would be delivered.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama administration and other opponents of No Child Left Behind say that the legislation distracts attention from other very important subjects. Teachers and schools become fixated on the reading and math metrics, and abandon subjects like financial literacy or foreign languages. The legislation has also been criticized because is imposes consequences that are too harsh for students, teachers, and schools that fail to achieve high marks on these reading and math tests. Judging the success of certain schools or teachers based on a standardized test for two subjects is too narrow a metric for the entire learning environment.
If this law was to be modified, it would add mandatory pre-school programs, more support for low income schools, and better methods for evaluating teacher performance. It would also lessen the focus of standardized testing.
No Child Left Behind is a problem for teachers because they are not being fairly compensated for the work that they do for children. Their compensation is only judged on the results of standardized testing for an arbitrary set of subjects. It is bad for students because they are not learning the most that they can. They are only really learning how to take standardized tests for reading and mathematics. In addition, students that are not good test takers will automatically get the short end of the stick.
If education reform is not made now, the United States will have an uneducated work force in the future. As a result, our economy will be less productive and our country less prosperous.
The No Child Left Behind legislation was to mandate standardized testing, which focused on mostly reading and mathematic skills that took up most of class time to prepare as well as diverted many school resources, such as labor and funding, from equally important subjects such as the arts, histories, sciences, and health and fitness. This degrades the quality of education that students get and it unfairly evaluates teachers on the presumption that if the students receive low scores that the teachers are the problem, not that it may be the fault, or the unfortunate disadvantage in test taking skills, that students may have that cause these scores.The Obama administration wishes to implement a lesser focus on standardized tests, make mandatory preschool programs, enhance teacher evaluation methods and support low income schools. They want to make these changes because of the flaws that the current system has, these flaws lessen the efficiency of the education system and therefore put a restraint on the quality of human capital that America can invest in future generations, which will lead to a higher undereducated/uneducated workforce and cause inefficiencies in the economy overall.
ReplyDeleteNo Child Left Behind's main focus is to mandate standardized testing in both reading and math. The Obama Administration wants to rewrite the 2002 legislation because of the test debate. Some want the tests to be taken out entirely while others want to enforce stricter tests. The Obama Administrations wants to rewrite the legislation to still keep the standardized test but to ensure that it doesn't take time away from the classroom. The new NCLB law would include more support for low-income schools, better teacher evaluations, and better access to high quality preschool. This law poses a danger for students who cannot test well, who get stressed while testing, or end up failing. This leads to a school getting poor ratings and the teachers are going to be the ones that are blamed for a child's failing score. Future economic issues that could arise from the quality of education would be the decrease in human capital, many students may become discouraged from the new legislation thus creating a weak workforce.
ReplyDeleteThe main focus of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policy is to mandate the annual standardizing testing of public schools in reading and math subjects. It then gives out consequences of rewards depending on the results. The policy was put in place in 2002 by President George W Bush. The Obama administration is trying to change the current law because it's crude and has its faults. It is taking away from classroom instruction time and too much time is spent on preparation for the tests. While focusing on two major subjects, math and reading while other major subjects such as art, financial literacy and economics, history, physical education, and extracurricular events are being neglected in students’ lives. Some changes that would be implemented consist of higher support for lower income schools.
ReplyDeleteIf this law was to be modified, it would add mandatory pre-school programs, more support for low income schools, and better methods for evaluating teacher performance. It would also lessen the focus of standardized testing. This is a big problem for teachers and students because it is at a moment when sentiments against standardized testing have reached a fever pitch. They have concerns about the new tests associated with the Common Core State Standards. If the quality of education is improved, there will be less income inequality. Students will have more equal opportunities. It will result in a better economy for the United States. Huge impact on human capital.
If the quality of education is not very good, then that could have a negative impact on future economic issues.
The NCLB or the "No Child Left Behind" act was written to deliver certain benefits but has caused a little bit of ruckus as well. The act was implemented to mandate standardized tests for reading and math. This has maddened many people because it has severely taken away from teachers classroom instructional time. The teachers now have to spend a lot of their time preparing students for the test and because of that, other subjects like art and history are getting hit because they are being neglected.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama administration wants to rewrite the legislation because of its many cracks. They're not taking it out completely because it does have some parts that can be worked with, ie.) the standardized test. Some of the changes would be advanced teacher evaluation, more support for lower income schools, better access to better pre schools, and lessen the focus on standardized testing.
This is such a concern to teachers and students because of the things previously mentioned but also because sentiments against standardized testing is at an absolute high right now.
If in the future, the quality of education decreased the economy will suffer and there will be higher accounts of income inequality. However if the quality of income was increased, we have less rates of income inequality and the economy will be fine.
The goal of No Child Left Behind is to ensure that the progress of all students is tracked. This means that standardized testing is necessary. However, the law must “ensure that the tests and time spent in preparation for them don’t take excessive time away from actual classroom instruction.” NCLB was signed into law by President George Bush in2002 with the intention to mandate the annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math in some grades while doling out consequences based on those results. The Obama administration wants to rewrite the law so that it gave students more chances of succeeding especially pertaining to minorities and people of low socioeconomic classes.
ReplyDeleteSchools have made progress by showing increased minority test scores and posting the highest high school graduation rates yet but this is not enough. Major changes that would be implemented include test-based teacher evaluations, revamped systems for holding schools accountable, and the use of common educational standards. Other changes include improved access to high-quality preschools and better support for low income students. This legislation is a problem for students because students have to spend their time preparing for standardized tests instead of actually learning the material that they need to know for college and life. It is also a problem for teachers because they do not get the credit they earn for their teaching. They are only judged on the performance of one test. If students perform poorly on standardized tests then they could be punished by receiving pay cuts and lose of funding to that particular school. Future economic issues that are likely to result are decreased productivity and a less educated workforce because of the neglecting of traditional education.
The main purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act, signed by George W. Bush in 2002, is to mandate the annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math, and distributed the test results based on the test results. The Obama Administration wants to rewrite the legislation because the act contains many problems and flaws. According to Duncan, the NCLB Act gives rise to “crude metrics” and “the focus it allegedly shifted from other subjects by testing reading and math.” In addition the NCLB Act created many ways for schools to fail and little ways for the schools to succeed. Obama sought to implement ideas that included test based teacher evaluation, revamped systems for holding schools accountable and the use of common educational standards.
ReplyDeleteMajor changes that would arise with the improved NCLB Act would include improved access to high quality preschools, better support for low-income schools, genuinely helpful teacher evaluation systems, and higher standards. With the NCLB Act, there was a major focus on testing for reading and math. With this new plan, it was said that there would be an elimination of “redundant and unnecessary tests” and that there would be a set limit on the amount of time spent taking state and district wide standardized testing. This legislation is a problem towards teachers and students because the act focuses too much of its attention on standardized testing. Although the standardized tests may be important, the time spent preparing for them is what are limiting students from actual class time learning. This means students are getting taught whatever it is that might appear on tests rather than the actual content of the course, therefore hindering their education. When it comes to the teachers, depending on how well the students do on standardized tests means how well the teachers are going to get paid. Some economic problems that might come up due to the quality of education in the United States include a decreased productivity because of a poorly educated population. Other problems may include how there would be a decrease of professional jobs such as doctors or engineers and an increase of blue-collar jobs.
The "No Child Left Behind" act was created to track the progress of students as they graduated to the next level of academics. The Bush administration passed the act in 2002 with the intention of having a annual standardized tests and evaluated schools and teachers by test results. The biggest concern by the Obama administration is giving people an equal chance. Rewriting the act would help those that could not have otherwise achieve the same oppurtunities as the majority. The socioeconomic decline and the minorities suffer the most under the act and even though some benefits have been emited by the act it would not be just to enact and support a law that created a rift between the races and classes.
ReplyDeleteIn terms of revisions, the new ideal system will have improved access to "high-quality preschool," better support for low-income schools, "genuinely helpful" teacher evaluation systems that "take into account student learning growth," and high standards. according to secretary of education Arne Duncan.
This is a problem to teachers because it asses the teachers on the test results of reading and math. This strips the teachers of any incentives to prioritize the other subjects like history,science, art, and physical education. The teachers are required to demonstrate and teach all subjects but only assesing teacher performance through math and reading has a moral dampening effect on teachers. On the students if they perform poorly they will be punished by budget cuts and lose of funding at the school. This will continue to have a snow ball effect which would result in a net decrease in economic productivity.
The quality of education in the United States is the biggest investment in regards to the future well being of the working american. If the NCLB continues to wreck havoc on the education in poor communities and the minorities, the education to income ratio will be incredibly large and will continue to grow like the income inequality gap we see today.
The NCLB “mandated the annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math in some grades, and it doled out consequences based on those test results.” It has been successful in “exposing the differences in educational attainment between racial and socioeconomic groups” and has increased the high school graduation rate to be the “highest-ever.” While it has been somewhat successful, it still has had its drawbacks, for example, it uses “blunt metrics to measure student achievement,” as well as other harmful side effects. The Obama Administration wants to rewrite the legislation because of these faults. The administration believes “No Child Left Behind created dozens of ways for schools to fail and very few ways to help them succeed or to reward success," and "We need to do exactly the opposite." They see that classrooms have been taking up so much of the class time to prepare students for these tests because so much rides on a passing score both for the individual and the school. A major change that would be implemented is an increased support for lower-income schools, this would help because either are most at risk for receiving low test grades which may cause them to lose funding which traps them in this cycle that is almost impossible to escape from. This legislation a problem to teachers and students because the teachers are giving students a substandard education, instead of being taught what we need to know, we are being taught the proper way to bubble a scantron. Also, classes that are deemed unnecessary are at risk of being cut, such as art and gym. Which causes students to lose a valuable part of their education and causes many teachers to lose their jobs. Future economic issues are likely to result from the quality of education in the United States are that we are creating students who have no creativity, all they know how to do is take a test. Innovation comes from creativity. Without the creativity in our workforce, we are likely to decline economically as we become unable to adapt.
ReplyDeleteNo Child Left Behind mandated the annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math and doled out consequences based on those test results. It was created in 2002 to follow the progress of students as they move through the school system. Since 2002, there have been increased minority test scores and the highest ever graduation rates. However, it has been criticized for using blunt metrics to measure student achievement and for punishing bad scores rather than rewarding good scores. The Obama administration wants to rewrite the law to decrease the burden of testing and take less class time away that is used to prepare for the tests. NCLB has taken the focus away from other subjects to focus on math and reading. The Obama administration wants to bring back an emphasis on arts, history, and other subjects, as well as math and reading. The major changes to NCLB include increased access to high-quality preschools, better support for low-income schools, and improved teacher evaluations that consider student learning growth. Standardized testing will be decreased and only necessary tests will remain. NCLB is bad for teachers because they are forced to "teach to the test" and then receive pay cuts if their students do not perform well on the standardized tests. It is bad for students because they are forced to "learn to the test" instead of learning other material or experiencing it. Future economic issues could occur if the quality of education is not improved. The current students are the future workforce. If education is not improved, we could have an uneducated workforce which would prevent us from participating in many of the more profitable businesses in the economy.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why No Child Left Behind was created is to issue annual standardized tests for public schools in reading and math, allowing tracking on progress of students. The Obama administration wants to change the current system, as the focus on the tests take away from the rest of the curriculum, as well as the focus being on reading and math, when there are more subjects than just that. The current administration wants to put more emphasis on the arts, as well as stop punishing bad students, and start rewarding the good ones. They also want to support low-income schools, pre-schools, and improve teacher evaluations. If the schools do not improve, our workforce will be more uneducated, which is bad for the economy and when it comes to voting.
ReplyDeleteThe No Child Left Behind major focus is to test kids in grades K-12 to see if they really know the things on test they are given. It took effect in 2002, it has had a major impact on U.S. public school classrooms. The Obama Administration want to rewrite the legislation because preparing for standardized tests are taking away too much time from actual class learning. So they are calling for limits on the time that school systems spend on standardized testing and test preparation. They will work with Congress to urge states and districts to look through the tests they are giving and remove unnecessary tests. It is a problem for teachers and students because kids aren't learning what they really need to learn instead are spending most of their times preparing for tests. Teachers are also evaluated based on test scores. If students are not well educated, then they won't be able take care of the future economy like how it is suppose to be taken care of.
ReplyDeleteThe major focus of the NCLB is on the math and reading standardized testing which has consequences based on those test results. It's main purpose is to measure student achievement. The Obama administration wants to rewrite the NCBL because as the article says "its crude metrics, the focus it allegedly shifted from other subjects by testing reading and math." Since the standardized test only test math and reading the teachers overly focus on trying to get the children to pass these test that there has been a move away from other parts of education like art, history, foreign languages, financial literacy, and physical education. This shift keeps the students for being well rounded and forces them to only be good at a specific set of skills that wouldn't apply to the real world I.e. Test taking. The major changes that are going to be put into place are improved access preschools that are high quality and better support for low income schools. While at the same time getting rid of unnecessary tests. The economic issue is that no one will have a real education only an education that fits to serve the end of doing well on a test. So we will have this illusion of an educated work force while no one will know anything.
ReplyDeleteThe main purpose of the No Child Left Behind Act is to mandate yearly standardized testing of public school students in reading and math. The results of how well they score on the test will give out different consequences. The Obama Administration wants to rewrite this legislation because they believe that it has many flaws. They believe that the NCLB act makes teachers fixate on the standardized testing subjects and draw away from the others like financial history and foreign languages. The new NCLB law would also include more support for low-income schools. This legislation can be a problem to teachers because if a school does not perform well on the tests, then the teachers are at risk for pay cuts or worse. It can be a problem for kids because the teachers are only going to focus on mainly two subjects, therefore the kids are not getting there full education. This economically is a problem because these kids are our future workforce and it would be big problem if they were not properly educated.
ReplyDeleteThe major focus of No Child Left Behind, that was signed into law by the Bush administration, is to test public school students in reading and math in certain grades and giving out consequences to the students based on those scores. These tests are in place because students, parents and educators need to know how much progress the student is making in the key fields of mathematics and reading each year. The Obama administration would like to rewrite the legislation because these standardized tests are taking a lot of time out of classroom teaching to prepare students for the tests and to actually take the tests. Also, since the tests are mainly based on math and reading, science, writing and history skills aren't being reinforced and taught as they should. It's a huge problem because teachers are not able to teach all they can and should teach and students are missing out on very valuable knowledge. Since our students are our future, if we do not better educate them we could be looking at an uneducated workforce and country. We would not be able to compete with foreign countries where every student has taken a calculus course in high school. Also, without knowledge in key subjects like history, our generation is bound to repeat the mistakes made by previous ones.
ReplyDeleteThe major focus of No Child Left Behind is to mandate the annual standardized testing of public school students in reading and math while closing achievement gaps. Depending on students’ performance on the tests, schools will be subject to consequences or rewards. The Obama administration wants to rewrite the legislation because of its weaknesses. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, noted that the tests must remain but they should not take away an overwhelmingly amount of time from the classroom. By testing reading and math, the NCLB shifts focus from other subjects such as art and history, foreign languages, financial literacy, and physical education. NCLB has also created a plethora of ways for schools to fail and far too few to help them succeed.
ReplyDeleteThe new NCLB includes improved access high-quality preschool, better support for low-income schools, and helpful teacher evaluation systems. The Obama administration hopes to work with Congress as well to reduce the burden of testing and eliminate unnecessary tests. This legislation is a problem to teachers because they may suffer negative implications from students’ test results. Teachers may have their pay cut and the school may receive less federal funding. As for students, they are not learning enough in the classroom as that time is replaced by preparing for standardized tests. Standardized testing has taken a toll on students’ education. Future economic issues likely to arise from the quality of education in the United States are less productivity and a decrease in human capital. The objective is to increase human capital to create a knowledgeable workforce that will strengthen the country’s economy.
January 20, 2015
ReplyDeleteThe initial focus of the No Child Left Behind Act was to enforce standardized testing in public schools. The law was set into motion during the Bush-era in 2002. Although, minority scores and high school graduation rates have significantly improved since enacting NCLB, it has to be reconsidered because it has been shifting the schooling curriculum focus from other subjects to the test subjects, math and reading. The other school subjects left out of the curriculum are “essentials, not luxuries.” If altered, the law would be changed to include support for low-income schools, better teacher evaluations, and higher quality pre-schooling. There is a worry about how to accommodate the Common Core State Standard Tests. There is a serious concern about students being taught more seriously what to expect on a test rather that the true curriculum of the course. Economic issues may arise based initially on the teachers getting paid based on their students test scores. Another complication may be America’s decreased productivity as a result of a poorly educated population. This is our biggest investment as a country, so having a poor education system can severely impact us in the future, creating less high quality careers like doctors and lawyers.
The main focus of no child left behind signed into law by George W. Bush was to gauge public schools effectiveness at educating students. No child left behind also set a goal for students in low income areas who don't have good schools to have the opportunity to attend a much better school. The reason the Obama administration is choosing to rewrite no child left behind is to help change the main downfall in the original law, which is the amount of bearing put on standardized test results. The new version of the law will shift the focus in classroom from teaching a standardized test to teaching all the subjects so students will learn the actual information. The main problem with this legislation after is that as schools do worse they will be trapped in a never ending circle due to the fact that they get less funding for doing bad and therefore won't be able to correct their issues. The future economic issues that will arise due to lack of good education are there will be a lack of skilled workers in the US and therefore the US would transition to a industrial country where economic inequality will be great.
ReplyDeleteThe main focus of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is to require that students take an annual standardized test which tests them in math and reading. This ofcourse is just two of many subjects that they should be tested in. The Obama administration wants to tweak this legislation to expand its usefulness and effectiveness. They want to implement preschool better programs, and better methods of evaluating teachers. This would not only allow for a wider learning potential for students, but a better educational system as a whole.
ReplyDeleteThis act, as it stands, creates problems for students and teachers for the fact that it is too narrow of a evaluation of a students knowledge or a teachers ability to teach. To think that the only subjects to need testing in is math and reading is beyond me. There is a wide variety of useful subjects that students should be requited to learn and be tested on annually. The economic impact of the improved legislation will ensure that teachers are given the right pay based on the knowledge that the students had obtained. It will also create a better workforce, as the students are more informed than they were before. The economy will improve and be in better hands as the future working class is well educated.
The main focus of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) policy is to make sure the yearly standardizing testing of public schools in the subjects of reading and math. It gives out rewards, both negative or positive, depending on the results. The policy was made in 2002 by George W Bush. But the Obama Administration wants to remake this legislation because it has numerous flaws. The NCLB policy reduces time from the regular guidelines, and instead focuses greatly on tests. The Obama Administration wants to set a limit on the amount of classroom time spent on preparing for tests. This legislation can be a problem to teachers because if schools dont perform well on the tests, then the teachers are at rick for pay cuts or being fired. The teachers most at risk for these punishments and those that teach art, music, and PE. If the quality of education is not very good, then that could have a negative impact on future economic issues. The decrease in human capital will make a huge negative impact on our economy.
ReplyDeleteThe major focus of NCLB is to close student achievement gaps by providing all children with a fair and equal opportunity to obtain a high-quality education. The Obama administration wants to rewrite the legislation because they believe there is too much focus on standardized testing on children over math and reading. This additionally wastes class time and wears out students. Obama wishes to impose education reforms, such as test-based teacher evaluations, revamped systems for holding schools accountable and the use of common educational standards. The legislation is a problem to teachers and students because it uses crude metrics to measure student achievement, and has shifted the focus from other subjects by testing reading and math when other subjects like arts and history, foreign languages, financial literacy, physical education, and after-school enrichment are as important as advanced math and science classes. The decrease in an educated human capital will cause economic problems in the future when CEOs are outsourcing their labor to a country that provides cheaper and more educated labor.
ReplyDeleteSince 2007, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) that was created during the Bush era has faced criticism for its apparent emphasis on high-stakes testing that has eclipsed the value of teaching and the students who will face those common standards. Despite this focus that has placed the law on the verge of testing redundancy, it has been lauded for the increase in minority testing rates and higher graduation rates because of its national and state testing standards.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as Duncan says, while students have a right to see their progress (as well as their parents), it should be capped against “crude metrics” and “blunt” standards that ruin the sanctity of learning; that teachers “deserve to be paid in a way that reflects the importance of what they’re teaching.” It would do this by tackling full educational opportunities – starting with preschool – as its #1 goal, because NCLBA makes room for failure, but – according to Duncan – little room for success.
However, the bill has shown itself to be a controversial debate in Congress, which is majority Republican. Even though the bill expired after the Bush administration, any legislative actions to remove the bill have proven impossible. Only through executive actions has the NCLBA been “renewed” for the sake of having a standard, along with a few other minor Obama-favored educational reforms, such as common core. Schools can gain “request waivers” to avoid NCLBA’s strictest rules. But what Duncan now hopes it to create a “bipartisan overhaul” that would make these visions into federal law.
The No Child Left Behind Act demands that public schools provides an annual standardized test to test students in reading and math. The Obama administration wants to rewrite the legislation because it does more harm than good, the tests only focus on reading and math, when there are other important things such as the arts, history, sciences, physical education, financial literacy, and after-school activities, the Obama administration believes teachers should be judged on all of these things instead of purely reading and math. The changes that would be implemented include improved access to “high quality preschool”, better support for low income schools, a “genuinely helpful” teacher evaluation system, they are also working to streamline testing and eliminating unnecessary tests, and also limit the time spent on testing. If the students in a school don’t score high on a test than that school won’t be given as much money, then they won’t have enough money to support certain clubs and programs and they won’t be able to pay teachers as much, some may even get laid-off. Because of this students won’t get the education that they need, with less education to move on to higher level, as in college. The supply of highly educated careers would decrease, causing an unbalance in the overall economy.
ReplyDeleteThe No Child Left Behind legislation was to mandate standardized testing, which focused on mostly reading and mathematic skills that took up most of class time to prepare as well as diverted many school resources, such as labor and funding, from equally important subjects such as the arts, histories, sciences, and health and fitness. This degrades the quality of education that students get and it unfairly evaluates teachers on the presumption that if the students receive low scores that the teachers are the problem, not that it may be the fault, or the unfortunate disadvantage in test taking skills, that students may have that cause these scores.The Obama administration wishes to implement a lesser focus on standardized tests, make mandatory preschool programs, enhance teacher evaluation methods and support low income schools. They want to make these changes because of the flaws that the current system has, these flaws lessen the efficiency of the education system and therefore put a restraint on the quality of human capital that America can invest in future generations, which will lead to a higher undereducated/uneducated workforce and cause inefficiencies in the economy overall.
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