Search results for: “NCLB”
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Kozol on NCLB and the struggles of real teachers
Salon.com’s August 30th article “Teachers: Be subversive” features a wonderful interview with Jonathan Kozol. Kozol has recently published “Letters to a Young Teacher,” which reminds me thematically and stylistically to Paulo Freire’s books “Letters to Cristina” and “Teachers As Cultural Workers: Letters to Those Who Dare Teach.” Kozol’s book “The Shame of the Nation: The…
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Failure, mistakes and NCLB
It is a tragedy the message many students receive in our schools today louder than all others is, “We have zero tolerance for mistakes or failure.” The creative process is all about being willing to take risks, fail, and learn from those mistakes as we try again. I am not saying we should celebrate failure,…
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NCLB, local control, end of course exams, and educating shepherds instead of sheep
How in the world can President Bush claim that NCLB has supported the ideal of local control in U.S. schools? Quite the opposite: NCLB has created a direct lever of control from Washington D.C. into public classrooms all over the nation which were previously controlled primarily by local school board policy and state education policy.…
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NCLB has been a destructive tragedy, not an accomplishment
I take issue with Washington Post writer Amy Fagan in her article “Bush-Democrat alliance on education law feared” today: Mr. Bush is urging Congress this year to renew one of his biggest domestic accomplishments, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law of 2002, which aims to increase student achievement through more testing and by tracking…
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Opposing NCLB renewal
Doug Noon posted about input the Aspen Institute is seeking relating to the renewal of NCLB. The following is what I submitted to them online this evening. I encourage you to also collect and share your thoughts. We should repeal NCLB and stop the counter-productive, myopic focus on summative, high-stakes assessment encouraged by this legislation.…
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Troubles for NCLB: It may not be improving achievement and it corrupts the profession
These are my notes from Dr. David Berliner’s presentation this morning at the Texas Tech University College of Education annual research conference. The title of his presentation is, “Troubles for the NCLB Act: It may not be improving achievement and it corrupts the profession.” A PDF copy of Dr. Berliner’s PowerPoint slides is available. This…
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Bush on Blogs – NCLB reflections
Yesterday, President Bush talked about “blogs” for the first time ever (according to TV press sources today.) He encouraged U.S. citizens (and others) to read milblogs to get a broader perspective on what is happening in Iraq’s civil war. Here is an excerpt from the President’s speech, and his reference to blogs: One of the…
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Reconceptualizing NCLB
Reconceptualizing NCLB by Dr Chris Moersch TECSIG 2005 presentation Refer also to my podcast with Dr Moersch from October 6th, when he also discussed this theme of reconceptualizing NCLB. assignment: view video clip from 1963 – research project on barbed wire What impact do these “technology” projects have on student achievement It’s all about instructional…
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NCLB may be a stealth agenda to allow corporations to take over our schools
This is a letter to the editor written by a friend and fellow educator here in the Lubbock area, and is reprinted here with permission. —– reprint of a letter to the Lubbock AJ editor follows —– 12 April 2005 Dear Editor, The federal legislation of No Child Left Behind is a poor attempt at…
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Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin Misunderstands Testing and School Quality
On May 4, 2017, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (@GovMaryFallin) was interviewed by NewsOK.com capitol reporter Dale Denwalt (@denwalt) about the current Oklahoma budget crisis. The full interview is 18.5 minutes long. Near the end of the interview, Dale asked Governor Fallin about her reasons for vetoing a bill which would have eliminated the U.S. history…