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The lawsuit by the parents tests Dumber Poor unintended consequences of No Child Left Behind Law
The lawsuit by the parents tests Dumber Poor unintended consequences of No Child Left Behind Law The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 takes the problem of fraud, low academic standards, public schools and extends to parents, even worse. Under this Act, the Ministry of Education hours requires students to pass the test. Lack of schools losing federal funding and other benefits if their students consistently tu in a low efficiency in tests.Holding these schools and teachers accountable, and expect students to demonstrate what? I have leaed, it sounds like a good idea. But does not mean that students teach bad, victims under dumber texts and teaching methods, such as poor math and any new language teaching, now have to pass the test that they are not willing for.As result, millions Students may miss these tests, not because they are stupid, but because the school does not teach them to read properly or solve a math problem without a calculator. Millions of high school students with low reading skills, mathematics, and now at risk of not graduating high school until they pass these tests.It is important that parents know the unvaished truth about their children? S actual academic abilities, but now many parents are frantic because they see their children? s degrees on the absence of such evidence. Consequently, they complain that school boards do not want their children in these tests, or move from high school because of low test scores. To protect their children, many parents are asking dumber down test to make sure their children graduate from high school and go to college.The No Child Left Behind Act are forcing many parents to tolerate schools that changes and testing standards, rather than blame the schools for their children? s failure to lea. This is a typical unintended consequence of govement more laws that try to solve the problems that a govement controlled by the school system established in the first place.State legislators in New York, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and other states have bowed to pressure from the parents. They have scrapped or softened Senior tests have shown that game too hard even for the best students of the schools named in suburbs.In Wisconsin, state legislators backed plans to require proof of graduation from high school, because a strong opposition from parents of affluent suburbs. A group of parents called? Advocates for education? argued that the high-stakes testing is not just for children and hurt the quality of education in schools.Critics classification were the evidence in question that the tests put too much pressure on children. Suburban pressures parents parent-teacher organizations and state legislators eventually scrapped the exclusion of evidence before a single high school student was it.Similarly, New York and Massachusetts, officials have given in to pressure from parents to set low passing grades for their new tests for graduation. In Virginia and Arizona, state boards of education have argued from the graduation tests that were too difficult, even for so-called best schools. Only 7 percent of schools met Virginia new standard of achievement, and 9 out of 10 in the second year of the schools in Arizona mathematics test.In a new city of New York, believes that the school exceeds 30 percent the city? S 11-degree are not eligible to graduate if the English rule which comes into force next year is being implemented today. Diane Ravitch of the Brookings Institute in Washington, is a former analyst in New York? S-public school system she believes that in some districts, less than 5 percent of seniors would benefit diploma under the new standards.Parents, especially those with younger children, must be considered. No? I do not want to finish the school with the children because they can not graduate? Do not pass the new test. In Chapters 8, 9, and the resources of public schools, public threat, "I explore how you can work around these problems by developing viable alteatives outside the public education schools.Joel Turtel is a policy analyst in education, and author of? Public Schools, Public Threat: How Public Schools Lie to betray our parents and children. "Contact information: Website: Email: lbooksusa@aol.com, Phone: 718-447-7348.Article copyright? 2005 Joel TurtelNOTE: You can publish this article on another website only if you created a hyperlink to Joel Turtel? S e-mail and website,
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