Re: NCLB: An Illusion of Progress

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/13/2006 5:31:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes:


BUILDING AN ILLUSION OF PROGRESS
Daytona Beach News-Journal  Editorial
August 6, 2006



... The children whom the No Child Left Behind Act was supposed to protect  
-- the ones most at risk -- could be worse off with schools under  
pressure to increase scores on standardized state tests. Schools lose  
federal money when test score averages for their students fall. School  
prestige is lost, and state school bonus money as well.


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This article is a complete exercise in silliness.  NCLB funds  schools 
according to the number of disadvantaged children they enroll.   Schools where large 
numbers of children fail to achieve proficiency on states  tests are supposed 
to get additional resources.  Once somebody starts  talking about "school 
prestige" and "school bonus money" being  lost, quit reading right there because  
what's coming next will  be from way out in left field.  And what could be 
further out than  this: "Creating a new matrix with focus on multiple measures 
of progress  should be the highest priority."  Right, exactly what parents of  
struggling kids want out of their schools - A new matrx with focus on  
multiple measures of progress.  

Art
 
Art