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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It was better before NCLB.  Why?  Because teaching was authentic.  It came from the teacher, and teachers felt trusted to do their job instead of surveilled and monitored and punished if some numbers didn't meet expectation.  And school wasn't an exploitation of children to perform for nothing but the reputation and job security of teachers, principals, administrators, etc.  I moved here from a long stint in another country and witnessed a huge difference in elementary due to NCLB.  Here I found kids who were stressed and under pressure to perform due to NCLB, and the teacher and administrator stress and pressure to push and manipulate children throughout the year to do so was visible and palpable.  And the kids seemed to have so much less fun learning and being at school than where I was previously.  NCLB is a terrible idea, is harmful to the learning experience (and I'm not just talking about time wasted on tests), and a waste of money.  [/quote]

[i]Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.

Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18 months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and breadth of our land.

That we have compromised this commitment is, upon reflection, hardly surprising, given the multitude of often conflicting demands we have placed on our Nation's schools and colleges. They are routinely called on to provide solutions to personal, social, and political problems that the home and other institutions either will not or cannot resolve. We must understand that these demands on our schools and colleges often exact an educational cost as well as a financial one.[/i]

http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html[/quote]

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