Testing Times; No Child Left Behind  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 400 no. 8746 (Aug. 2011), page 25.
Topik: No Child Left Behind Act 2001-US; Schools; Compliance; Problems; Waivers; Education Policy

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When former president George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) a decade ago, with support from both sides of the aisle, it decreed that 100% of students should be reading and doing mathematics at the appropriate level for their ages by 2014. Sadly 82% of America's public schools are at risk of failing to meet those targets. States are now worried that they will lose vital federal funding because the NCLB connects aid with test results. The main reason why American schools do badly is poor teaching. NCLB has helped point this out. But it also produces distortions. Nobody can excuse school districts that have resorted to cheating to pass the tests. But others found that when they raised their standards, they saw test scores fall. Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, said this week that he will start releasing states from the need to comply with NCLB.

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