http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/17/665/no-child-left-behind-revokes-most-needed-funds-punitive-system-wont-improve-schools/ Global News & Information, Culture, Media Critique & Video Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2008/10/17/665/no-child-left-behind-revokes-most-needed-funds-punitive-system-wont-improve-schools/comment-page-1/#comment-522 Cheating in the News - Home » Blog Archive » ‘No Child Left Behind’ Revokes Most-needed Funds; Punitive System Won’t Improve Schools | CafeSentido.com Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:33:44 +0000 http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/?p=665#comment-522 [...] View Full Article No Child Left Behind turned that formula on its head, and in fact imposed a blanket system of “standardization”, which undermines local control, severely restricts the quality and scope of information available to American students, and imposes on the entire system a logic of cheating. Schools aims to “teach to the test” in order to raise scores, and even wealthy states like New Jersey are abandoning vital subject matter like social studies in order to focus on test-oriented teaching. [...] [...] View Full Article No Child Left Behind turned that formula on its head, and in fact imposed a blanket system of “standardization”, which undermines local control, severely restricts the quality and scope of information available to American students, and imposes on the entire system a logic of cheating. Schools aims to “teach to the test” in order to raise scores, and even wealthy states like New Jersey are abandoning vital subject matter like social studies in order to focus on test-oriented teaching. [...]

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