Is NCLB Flunking ?

The No Child Left Behind program may needs it's
own tutor. According to reports on the commissions
report unless you read the commissions report yourself
you won't find out that the No Child Left Behind program
is failing and badly. The reasons why the program is failing
may also surprise you too. Take a gander at the article below.

New Haven, CT - The Commission on No Child Left Behind does not tell America what it really needs to know: Is the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) working? If it isn't working, will it succeed by the 2014 deadline? The answers to both of these questions, unfortunately, are no.

Beyond NCLB, the title of the Commission's report issued last month, would be more accurately titled Bolstering NCLB. The report is a defense of the Act against its critics. It is filled with anecdotes about NCLB success stories, and its recommendations are structured within-not beyond-the framework of the existing law. Because Beyond NCLB is aimed at shoring up the Act, the important questions are not asked or answered.

The commissioners state, "there is growing evidence that NCLB is producing some results where it counts: in improved student achievement." But the test results included in the report show that student scores increased more before NCLB was implemented in 2002, not after it. This finding raises the possibility that NCLB might be inhibiting student achievement instead of increasing it. An evaluation of NCLB by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University concludes that so far NCLB has not significantly improved test scores or reduced racial achievement gaps.

Given NCLB's underwhelming performance, is 100 percent proficiency on exams by 2014 attainable? The answer to this question appears in a startling table on page 69 of the report which the commissioners do not discuss. The table shows how many states are expected to reach 100 percent proficiency by the deadline. For elementary school students in reading, only seven out of the twenty-one states analyzed are expected to make it. These are the highest results listed in the table. For elementary school students in math and for middle school students in both reading and math, the prognosis is worse. There is no way that we will achieve 100 percent proficiency for all students by 2014.

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