Senate Tables New 'No Child' Vote »
Posted by: SusanParrish 9 months, 3 weeks agoThe top two lawmakers on the Senate Education Committee said Friday they are putting off consideration of a new No Child Left Behind law until next year. Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., have decided that there's not enough time this year to complete work on the legislation, which has not yet been formally introduced.
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SusanParrish9 months, 3 weeks ago
"However, it may be even more difficult to pass a rewritten No Child bill next year because it is a presidential election year. It is harder to get the bipartisan consensus needed to pass major legislation against the backdrop of an intense presidential campaign."
They might bump up their approval ratings if they worked together in a timely manner on this, showing the people that they care more about our children than partisan politics. The best behaved might even give their candidate an unintentional boost.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS9 months, 3 weeks ago
Little lady, you are wrong but I gave you a positive anyway. The Government has no right to force it's way into the school house. These are States rights. It has been a failure since the day it was conceived. Please name one program that the Federal Government has run properly, well, or isn't a boondoggle? Dump this overbearing elephant in the trash and let teachers teach. We'd be better off.
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SusanParrish9 months, 3 weeks ago
Oh you misunderstand! I am not in favor of it. My experiences have been far from positive. I know there are some people who have gotten help for their kids and really like it, but it has been a disaster from my viewpoint.
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SusanParrish9 months, 3 weeks ago
I'm confused, you see no constitutional justification for the Federal Department of Education, or for abolishing the Federal Department of Education?
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david_nwpa9 months, 3 weeks ago
I do not sell textbooks for a living; I teach. I cannot keep losing students' time to testing. We spend more time testing in any given grading period than we do in the classroom teaching. That must change. We cannot continue to expect students to take tests without spending an appropriate time learning.
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not2needy9 months, 3 weeks ago
They certainly NEED a new No Child law, the current one isn't worth the paper it's written on!
Like RFE said, ask any teacher, especially here in Ky.
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tehranchik9 months, 3 weeks ago
Several of my clients are teachers--not one of them support the 'No Child' program.
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rightfromwrong9 months, 3 weeks ago
every child deserves an opportunity to get an education and certainly in the USA there are many kids bright enough to get thru university but will not have that opportunity.
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ladylou49 months, 3 weeks ago
No Child Left Behind has set schools up for failure. The goals are unrealistic; too dependent on "test, test, test" mentalities that force teachers to trade a relaxed, curious, stimulating, imaginative, arts-based lesson plan for test-prep drills, scripted language arts programs and huge data systems of accountability. The textbook publishers and program producers though are having great success selling their products to the states with those promises of boosting the test scores. I haven't looked lately at the percentages of reading achievement and the gaps, but have the last five years of NCLB raised a "nation of readers" and problem-solvers?
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