Is Bush's "no child left behind act" legitimate or is it all political fluff to appease the masses?
83288
Political fluff... he's an a*s h*le.  It was underfunded and was a total failure.  It's now nicknamed the every child left behind act.
816563
Without a doubt, the quality of education offered in American schools has plummeted in the last 25 years.  Parents from all walks of life, presented with failing grades by their undereducated children, reacted by forcing schools to lower their standards.  The result has been new generations of young people who, as adults, lack even fundamental knowledge of science, mathmatics, and linguistics.  It does not bode well for the future of science and technology, let alone education, in America.\n\nThe causes are manifold.  Parents, both working long hours, who are less and less involved in their children's lives.  High standards of living causing entertainment to be more valued than work.  Lack of role models.  The Internet.  Reality television.  Computer games.  Hollywood.  Consumerism.  Your evaluation is as good as mine.\n\nBush is not the product of such an average American household.  He's from a driven, ambitious, wealthy family, and an older generation, which valued knowledge, and whose collective work ethic still drives our economy. \n\nStill, you have a point.  He is more representative of the younger  generations coming into adulthood now, than he is of his own.  The political machine that put him into power was more responsible for his success than he was.  Once there, in the limelight, his shortcomings became glaringly obvious.  Was his re-election a result of his appeal to the younger crowd?  I doubt it.  They do not turn out in large numbers to vote.  Their poor education also fails to teach them about the importance of good government, and civic responsibility.\n\nI'm afraid Bush was elected, and re-elected, for reasons that have far more to do with American's fears and biases, than for his intellect or capabilites.  We, and too much of the rest of the world, will suffer the result for some time to come.
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If you have been following the news, you will know that they passed the bill, but never passed legislation to fund it.  The part of that No Child Left Behind Act, that they didn't publicize, is that it gives military recruiters access to information, to which they did not formerly have access.\n\nPeople are making quite a fuss about recruiters, who can force schools to hand over unlisted phone numbers, addresses, etc.  \nThey are also now permitted to take kids out of class to try to pitch their line about joining up.  They are appearing on people's doorsteps, uninvited, and insisting on talking to the high school kids.\n\nYou need to watch more network news.  The only thing that legistlation did is put more of a financial burden on local school districts and give military recruiters better access to the poor kids who will not be able to afford college.  Then, the Republicans were the majority in both houses of congress and refused to pass money to fund the Bill.  Maybe now, after January, there may be something done.
599726
yeah, like they need to get group shrink wrapped.\nBy now the truth is obvious. It was obvious to me from the start. They lied about everything and they lie about everything. Nothing they have done is for good. All of the Bush admin bills if read carefully are for evil. The "No child left behind act" is really just the "shut down public schools act." The imigration bills are just authorization of slavery bills. The patriot act is another example. Anything you look at, if you look deep, you see it written on everything the bush admin does. They are totally evil. The only way people don't know about it is by beliving the\nrepublican news.
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Having a plant (Jeff Guckert) in the White House Press corp to ask softball questions.\n\nPaying Anderson Cooper to write favorable op ed stories about "No Child Left Behind.\n\nCensoring the results various government studies, selective publishing of same.\n\nSending propaganda to local news stations who label it news.\n\nAre just a few examples.  There are many more.\n\nAll administrations do PR, Bush Admin. has reached new lows in that area.
946910
No Child Left Behind is a joke.  The perception is that more money is the solution.  Offer private school vouchers and watch the cost become a fraction of what it does now.
461253
It should be unacceptable to allow kids to continue to the next academic level if they are unable to spell and write simple sentences at their current level. The idea of "No Child Left Behind" is a good one, if it were organized differently and funded better. Many international students that I have talked with feel a certain disdain for the level of illiteracy of many American students. Education doesn't seem to be taken very seriously here as compared to many countries in the world. Many students want to take the easiest route possible. That is one of the reasons so many upper level scientific and engineering professionals come from elsewhere, and, according to some of the things I have read, why certain jobs go overseas. The jobs are taken more seriously.
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it puts too much emphasis on testing. we all know that all students are different and to develop standards and test them for students is way off base. bush and his administration has it all wrong when it comes to education.\n\nthe gates foundation approach of developing smaller schools so that teachers get to know their students if much better. if teachers know their students then they can teach them based on what they know about person.\n\nchildren are unique, indviduals and we should treat them as such. NCLB and its emphasis on standards and testing makes children seem like robots.
808326
If you mean, the free education we have that has taught less than 35% of our children to read at a 3rd grade level,  low standards for children, lack of education for the educator and general chaos in our schools as the way we know it today.. I HOPE SO!   I really hope the new changes to the American Education Act (No Child Left Behind) really improves our schools.  The one good thing Bush gave us.  No one is accountable and our children are among the least educated in the world... shameful!
541477
yup... Bush has made cuts to education and that's not mentioning his No Child Left Behind program that has heavily taxed an already overburdened system... \nAnd college tuition has went up an average of 40 percent since Bush's presidency... and loans and grants are down...\nEducation is far down his list, and all of his suporters have their children in private school and just want the school choice program so they can milk the system even more...\n\nNot everyone can afford private school... and has anyone ever been in an inner-city school... or even a school that is way out in the middle of nowhere in the south... poverty beyond belief and no supplies...
273151
that program is full of shit...they expect too much out of some of the kids just so they can follow the no child left behind motto..... no matter where the money goes...its not good for all of the kids.
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The "No Child Left Behind Act": Pros and Cons\nWhat are the Pros? \n\n1. Accountability - Schools and districts must demonstrate annually that all students - and all groups of students - are meeting state goals for grade-level work to be counted as making Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). \n\n2. Focus on Children of all Backgrounds – Every state is now required to test all children in grades 3 through 8 and report scores broken down by race, ethnicity, low-income, English proficiency and special needs categories. \n\n3. Highly Qualified Staff – Sets specific requirements for teacher’s degrees and continuing education. \n\n4. Help for High-Poverty Schools – Title I schools receive both financial and technical assistance to develop and implement a school improvement plan. In addition, eligible parents will be able to transfer their children to other public schools if improvement is not met or get outside tutoring assistance for them.\n5. It stirred the literacy program researchers to advise the reinstatement of phonics in early grades. They discredited the premise of whole language in response to low literacy rates.\nCons:\n1. Freedom to Leave Failing Schools - While this is also a positive aspect of the No Child Left Behind Act, it may create problems in areas where many schools are failing to meet the guidelines. There may be no real choice in the end due to higher enrollment numbers in schools performing slightly better. \n\n2. Unrealistic Timeline – While many parts of the timeline set reasonable and realistic expectations as to improvement of student performance, other portions of the timeline may be impractical. For instance, teacher education requirements could be set too soon on the timeline for schools to comply. \n\n3. Unreasonable AYP Requirements – Adequate Yearly Progress is a vital part of any long-term plan, especially for the No Child Left Behind Act. However, some aspects of this goal may be unrealistic in cases of some special needs students and ESL classrooms.\n\n\n 4. The federal law, "No Child Left Behind", and standards-\nbased curriculum clashed. It lead to "teaching to the test". Dire consequences for schools and teachers of "No Child Left Behind" affect curriculum through fear. Literacy program researchers retained much of whole language's jargon and perspective.\nThe "No Child Left Behind Act" is the most recent in a long history of system changes and education reform initiatives, some teacher-directed, others student-centered, this one test-centered.Democracy depends on the literacy of the majority, but success\nhas been elusive.
987358
I think you answered your own question, the kids are being left behind cuz they are dumb. so the prez wants them to repeat the same grade so they won't be dumb. You get it? Ha ha !!! I'm just joking. Um, I personally HATE BUSH! He NEEDS TO BE THE ONE IN IRAQ AND IRAN INSTEAD OF SENDING THOUSANDS OF OUR YOUNG MEN OUT TO DRY!!! HE'S NOTHING BUT A F*** HEAD. SO I REALLY DON'T CARE HOW HE F***S THE US CUZ STUPID AS$ AMERICANS VOTED HIM INTO OFFICE
101425
a challenge would be in obtaining the info from an accurate source n presenting their credibility. teachers rlly look for that in big papers.
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1. Yes.\n2. Regardless of a child's family background, finding and building that child's full potential will create more fully productive adults, and will find more of those "diamonds in the rough." Equal funding creates better chances for those from poverty areas to access the instruction and materials they need to gain the skills to become part of the productive work force.\n3. Absolutely it affects education. Lowered funding means increased class sizes and less materials to work with. The top two in-classroom variables for student success are student to teacher ratios (lower being better), and an intelligent and well-trained teacher. (The top overall variable being student economic class background).\n4. Statewide tests are a joke. They are in place for two reasons... the first being that they are a money-making industry with strong lobbyists, and the second being that the Bush administration wants to scapegoat teachers rather than being straightforward about wanting to cut Education out of the Federal budget (it isn't a Constitutionally defined federal area, anyway). \n\nTrue accountability can be easily implemented through the following steps:\n1. students pass at 80% (B-average), not 60% (D-average), and passing to the next grade must be documented and justified, rather than having to justify retention (students being retained more than once in their school careers should be placed with additional supports, such as remedial classes with even smaller teacher-student ratios, and/or special education supports)\n2. student achievement documented through portfolios demonstrating pre- and post-instruction work and tests, addressing the state standards and benchmarks. The tests can be the unit tests the teachers are using anyway already.\n3. Accountability for attendance (excepting severe health issues...requiring special education and homebound instruction) and behavior (excepting Emotional disorders requiring special education and possible alternative placements) should be held entirely by the parents, not the schools. Right now, schools are held entirely accountable for both, and can lose AYP for these issues.\n4. All the funding and staffing by states currently used for state testing, should be placed into independent auditors of student portfolios on a random sampling basis.\n5. If the Bush administration wants to end Federal funding for Education, bite the bullet and have the courage to say so, with a plan to ease Federal control back to total state control over a 5 year period, with a direct transfer of federal income taxation to state income taxation percentages to cover the change. Federal taxation can be graually increased again, anyway.\n\nSorry, that's to logical and simple.
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Absolutely.  Public schools are becoming a total 'joke' in America.  Just look at all the grammatical and spelling errors on this site!
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Any official announcement, release, or utterance of any governmental official made under the direction of the Federal Government should be considered propaganda and should be critically analyzed and taken with a grain of salt.\n\nIt's not just the Bush administration.  The Clinton Administration and all previous administrations stretching back to George Washington's terms.  Government is about exerting control over the people, not about telling the truth, though, at times, the truth is useful in controlling the people.\n\nJust be glad that our government allows us the freedom to write things like I just di.... akk!!