The idea of No Child Left Behind is good, but oftentimes the concept is abused. Some students are being pushed through the system just to meet the annual yearly progress. No Child Left Behind is based on four basic principles: stronger accountability for results, increased flexibility and local control, expanded options for parents, and an emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work. Reading the principles makes No Child Left Behind seem like a clean cut strategy that could help the flawed education system, but it has yet to make a major positive impact.
I do not believe that there should be national standardized test. I say that because oftentimes the tests are biased. The test are made by people from the suburbs so they may use the word pail and a student from a low-income neighborhood may use the term bucket, because that’s what they’ve been taught. Therefore, the students from the suburbs have an advantage over those students who live in a low-income area. As an educator, I would try to diversify my classroom and introduce new things to my students. I believe that each state should come up with some sort of standardized test to make sure each student isn’t just being passed on to the next grade.
No Child Left Behind is hurting the education system, some students are not reading on their grade level. I do not understand how an educator could pass a student that cannot read on to the next grade level. That is not helping the child it is actually hurting him/her now that student will fall even farther behind and possibly drop out of school. As a future educator, it does not seem plausible to just past a student on if they are not able to read. It seems ethically and morally wrong. I plan to teach either mathematics or social science and if my students do not know how to add, subtract, or find places on maps I for one will not pass them onto the next level. The student has failed to meet the requirements set out for them at the beginning of the...