Comments on: Are you a “No Child Left Behind” LOSER?

By: Jo DeSantis Winter/Goldstein

Jo DeSantis Winter/Goldstein — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:01:11 +0000

WE ARE DEFINATELY STUPID ARROGANT AND UNSAVED.

By: Jo DeSantis Winter/Goldstein

Jo DeSantis Winter/Goldstein — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 02:00:26 +0000

I HAVE BEEN IN RIGHT TO LIFE WORK FOR THREE DECADES AND LONGER.
DO NOT TELL ME ABOUT CHILDREN
WE KILLED MILLIONS OF THEM VIA ABORTION ALL NEAT AND LEGAL LIKE

AND WE THINK GOD IS NOT ANGRY?
THEN WE ARE STUPID.
JO

By: INVESTIGATION OF ‘NO CHILD’ READING PROGRAM

INVESTIGATION OF ‘NO CHILD’ READING PROGRAM — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:40:12 +0000

[…] This is just one more example of the corruption behind No CHILD LEFT BEHIND that has elected officials like Kathy Cox reporting to lobbyist instead of the best interest of our children! Do you think we should re-authorize No Child Left Behind? How big of an issue will this be in 08? FOXNEWS-WASHINGTON — A federal investigator looking into allegations of conflict of interest and mismanagement in a $1 billion-a-year Education Department reading program said Friday he has made criminal referrals to the Justice Department. […]

By: Clinton points out waste in No Child Left Behind

Clinton points out waste in No Child Left Behind — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:58:08 +0000

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By: JohnKonop

JohnKonop — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:59:12 +0000

Gimmie

Very good post! We also most be honest that all kids are not meant to go to college. Nothing is wrong with vocational education. Also we cannot discount the important role a parent plays. There are many times my wife and I are tired yet we still focus on the kids needs!

By: Gimmebreak

Gimmebreak — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:07:58 +0000

All I can say is WOW.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:42:40 +0000

Gimme:
Dont know if this will help answer your question but it does break down a 778 billion failure:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/wm1406.cfm

By: Gimmebreak

Gimmebreak — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:01:36 +0000

Or Kansas.

By: Al Swearengen

Al Swearengen — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:58:54 +0000

Here’s my idea…study whatever Georgia is doing and craft policy around the exact opposite of that.

By: Gimmebreak

Gimmebreak — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:18:06 +0000

I don’t know the specifics of No Child Left Behind, but as a young man who remembers quite clearly his not too distant years of public education, I have to say I agree and can testify to the fact that organized testing is useless, pointless, and aimless. It’s a fallacy that testing is vital to education.

Testing promotes one thing and one thing only: memorization. I studied Spanish for 7 years. Starting in middle-school, through to AP Spanish in my Junior year of High School, and then a semester in college. I always studied, I always passed, and in fact did quite well. Would you like to know how much Spanish I know? None, I can’t understand it except in a very basic way when reading text, I can’t write it and I can’t follow a spoken conversation. Are my teachers to blame? No, they taught me what I needed to know to pass tests and exams, which was all they could do with what limited time they had. They did their jobs, I passed the tests. The problem? Tests are useless except, as John notes, for the people who MAKE them. It’s sad but true. It’s become a world where cirriculum is design AROUND formal tests… they literally shape the education our children received, based on the tests they choose. Meaning your child doesn’t learn things essential to function in the real world. No, they learn things essential to passing the tests the state has chosen. States choose tests, shape their cirriculum around those tests, because they want students to pass. The more students pass, the better the school looks. The better schools look, the more funding they receive. Like everything else, even the education of our children is now “big business”. I think it’s pathetic.

There is only one truly reliable educational method, in my opinion, and that is hands on in a stable and consistent environment related to and focused on a specific ability/subject, etc. I got into college, and it was like entering a whole new world. I studied film, and you know how I learned how to shoot film? My professor showed us how the cameras work, put us in groups, and told us to make films. I learned more in a single semester of college than I did in my entire educational career up to that point. I wish we could devise a means to implement this method at all levels of education. It would change the future of our country.