The No Child Left Behind Law was not all bad; public schools needed an incentive to focus on students whose achievement lagged behind, and needed to figure out a way to close those achievement gaps as quickly as possible. Testing wasn’t the answer, as we have all found out.
President Obama has gotten it right in his proposal to restructure the most damaging effects of NCLB: the policy of flunking schools if they don’t approach the unreachable goal of 100% proficiency in every student sub-group. Currently, a third of the nation’s schools have a grade of “F” and, as any teacher knows, handing out failures is no way to encourage success.
I agree with my Mother!
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