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0|0|0|||||NCLB%3A FLUNKS ON 3RD-ANNIVERSARY REPORT CARD|alexb||12:37:54|02/04/2005|%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%0D%0ASee http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fairtest.org%2Fnattest%2FYear%2520three%2520Report%2520Card.html %0D%0Afor details of the evaluation. Our thanks to Louise Robinson Doskow %0D%0Afor bringing this to our attention.%0D%0A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%0D%0ANCLB FLUNKS ON 3RD-ANNIVERSARY REPORT CARD%0D%0A%0D%0AThe federal %22No Child Left Behind%22 %28NCLB%29 education plan fails by its %0D%0Aown standards%2C according to a %22Report Card%22 issued to mark Saturday%27s %0D%0Athird anniversary of President George Bush signing the controversial %0D%0Aplan into law. NCLB earned two grades of %22F%22 for failing to stimulate %0D%0A%22Real Improvements in Educational Quality%22 and discouraging the use %0D%0Aof %22High-Quality Assessments%22 on the scale used by the National %0D%0ACenter for Fair %26 Open Testing %28FairTest%29. A grade of %22D%22 was awarded %0D%0Afor the law%27s confusing and contradictory system of school %0D%0A%22Accountability%22 based on the arbitrary %22adequate yearly progress%22 %0D%0Arequirement. Top grade on the Report Card%2C an %22A-%2C%22 came in the %0D%0Acategory %22Public Relations%22 with a comment noting the Bush %0D%0AAdministration%27s effort %22to name and promote the law with %0D%0Ahigh-sounding rhetoric.%22 The Administration earned a mixed grade of %0D%0A%22C%22 for %22Focusing Attention on Children Left Behind%22 without %0D%0Aproviding adequate resources to close learning gaps. The grades are %0D%0Abased on a detailed analysis of NCLB in FairTest%27s recent report %0D%0A%22Failing Our Children.%22 FairTest and 32 other education%2C civil rights %0D%0Aand children%27s advocacy organizations recently sent Congress a joint %0D%0Astatement recommending more than a dozen changes to overhaul NCLB.%0D%0A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%2A%0D%0A
1|1|0|||||RE%3A NCLB%3A FLUNKS ON 3RD-ANNIVERSARY REPORT CARD|CaZy TrAiN|1|22:45:29|05/03/2007|I personally think anything Bush says is a lie. he has brought war on all. I usually dont get into polotics%2C but he has got to go. No child left behind is a scandle obviously%2C and i personally think that FCAT is too. Children get so stressed out over this test%2C it%27s crazy. You cant move a muscle at all during this monstrosoty. I would like to know why we can take any other test and use the restroom%2C but we cant during this one. it puts stress on teaches%2C which puts stress on students and parents. now that they have it earlier in the year%2C students cant learn all they need to for this FCAT. i think its total garbage%2C you%3F