Teaching to the test for NCLB is one of the worst things to ever happen to the American public school system.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > About the only good thing as far as I can see we got from NCLB is that > it generated a lot of data, most of it baseline with some real > follow-up info. That gives a good starting point for charting real > reforms. The problem with it is that it generally mandated changes but > didn't mandate any funding. So of course what happened was that school > systems took the cheapest and easiest way of meeting that imposed > mandate. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324735 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
