Thursday, September 15, 2011

Republican Senators Alexander, Burr, Isakson, Kirk Introduce Four Bills To 'Fix' No Child Left Behind


So, how does this new version of the old NCLB really help the schools and students that need it? The answer: it doesn't. All it really does is 2 things: 1) encourage the increase of charter schools, which have been proven to not improve learning for disadvanta­ged or advantaged kids, and 2) re-emphasi­zed the use standardiz­ed tests to evaluate teaching and learning, which has also been proven to be ineffectiv­e and unreliable measures of assessment­. When will we learn that we can't add on to a bad reform to make it better.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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