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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: Detroit News report on NCLB
Interesting piece in today's NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/opinion/02TUE1.html?th -----Original Message----- From: George Sheridan [mailto:learn@jps.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:46 AM To: arn-l@interversity.org Subject: [arn-l] Detroit News report on NCLB Exclusive Report: No Child Left Behind Critics: School law hurts kids Thousands do not receive promised academic aid.: State fails to check compliance with federal rules.: Strong schools flunk for nonacademic reasons. By Christine MacDonald and Maureen Feighan / The Detroit News The No Child Left Behind Act, called the most far-reaching education reform in 35 years, promises to boost student achievement and parent involvement. Instead, the federal law is riddled with problems for Metro Detroit students, parents and educators, a Detroit News analysis found. Two years after Congress passed the law, thousands of local students are not getting services they were promised, the state has not monitored whether schools are complying with the law and locally and nationally, schools are still landing on the failing list by the hundreds. It's not just schools with low achievement scores struggling to keep up. High-performing schools in some of the area's wealthiest communities have been labeled as "failing" because not enough students took the tests used to measure whether schools are meeting the standards. [More] http://www.detnews.com/2004/specialreport/0402/29/a01-77649.htm About this series TODAY: The federal No Child Left Behind Act has drawbacks that pose challenges for parents, students and educators. MONDAY: The future under the federal education law includes more tests for students, stricter guidelines for teachers and higher odds of schools being labeled as failing. Education either...is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. - Paulo Freire
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