Will the No Child act be left behind?

[babylonsister]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/17087084.htm

Will the No Child act be left behind?
By Rob Hotakainen
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON - Five years after President Bush got a Republican-led Congress to pass a landmark law that forces schools to give students more tests, his party is leading a revolt.

When Congress signed off on the No Child Left Behind legislation in December 2001, one Republican, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, said it represented a new era that would benefit students across the country, and he saluted Bush's leadership. Now Brownback, who's seeking the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, would be happy if states could just opt out of the federal testing mandates.

Ditto for Missouri Rep. Roy Blunt, the House's second-ranking Republican. After co-sponsoring the legislation, the minority whip now says he regrets voting for it.

Is No Child Left Behind about to get left behind?

While no one is predicting its immediate demise, discontent is growing on Capitol Hill.

So far, 66 Republicans - 59 in the House of Representatives and seven in the Senate - have signed on to "The A-Plus Act," legislation that would allow states to sidestep the yearly tests.

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[Deja Q]

1. Sine the corporate elite feel to leave all adults behind, there can only be one answer...

K&R, BTW. (the post was meant to be rhetorical, but this deserves a K and a R.)

[babylonsister]

2. It might if I don't kick this!

:rofl:

[lonestarnot]

3. kick

[senseandsensibility]

4. Liberals, educators and parents

don't like No Child Left Behind either. It's not just republicans.

[babylonsister]

5. Then it needs to be abolished, loudly and publically! nt

[warren pease]

7. It's "teach to the test"

Which is fine in math, but in history, political science (civics?), and any liberal arts, teaching to the test means stifling creativity, ignoring nuance and interpretation and, untimately, boring the hell out of the kids. So they end up hating school, not reading as adults, and taking jobs as corporate drones -- which I suppose is the whole point.

So I think it's a lousy idea, but one worthy of BushCo, the eternal fountain of lousy ideas.


wp

[WinkyDink]

6. WWND?

What Will Neil Do?
http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/3742329.html

http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2001/02/19/story1.html

[seabeyond]

8. TAK TEST TOMORROW.... nOOOOOOO, lol lol.

my youngest flips out. only in third grade. so not fair.

my oldest i havent worried about, but even he has the jitters this time. they are already in bed and i have to get up EARLY tomorrow morning to make a protein filled breakfast.

ah well

then we are done for another year

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. We started testing today

It is a fucking nightmare. This law can't go away soon enough.