Children’s

Rights/Decade for

Childhood: No Child

Left Behind (NCLB)

ByKellee R. Smith

Group 1

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ART

Why is the NCLB Important?

Affects teachers and students

Grades K-12

Equal Education

-Mainstreaming

Positive and Negative Impacts

Accountability for results

NCLB Goals that by 2013/2014, all students will test at profiecent.

In the Beginning…

Passed by President George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy in 2001

Federal Law

Controversial

Reading/Math…Later Science

Positives from NCLB

• Annual report card sent out annually to parents about student’s progress.

• More options for parents to move their child to better schools.

• Special needs are being taught the same curriculum

• Closing achievement gap

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Negatives of NCLB

“Dumb Down” teaching-teaching to the test

Drill and Kill

Teachers are being limited to what they can teach (students are being limited to what is taught)

Underfunded

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Make You Say HMM

• FYI, “Immigrants and English Language Learners need one to two years to develop social language. In addition, to devlop academic language, this takes between four to nine years to develop” ( Cummins, 2000, Pg.10).

• Your ELL students have 3 years before they have to take the test.

It’s Showtime!

• Youtube.com/watch?v=LV7od-RU1Ju