A Teacher's Guide to Fixing No Child Left Behind

Test obsession, narrow curricula, blaming teachers--a few problems resulting from the No Child Left Behind law that are unpacked in this animated video. The video details some of the problems created by NCLB and describes President Barack Obama's proposal to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and solve them. Written by a teacher at the U.S. Department of Education, the animated video offers a vision that strengthens teaching, narrows achievement gaps, raises standards, and prepares all students for colleges and careers in a global economy. It includes video clips of Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. TRT: 14:49

Revised version dated May 24, 2011

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Teaching
• teachers
• principals
• leadership
• No Child left Behind testing
• accountability
• federal funding
• college and career standards
• President Barack Obama
• Secretary Arne Duncan

[kgast0303]

And who is going to create these Better Tests: the Federal Government? I have students that are in and out of jail, with parents who are also in and out of jail. I have kids with parents that are drug dealers and drug addicts. I have kids that are raising themselves, some life on the streets or go from one friends house to another. And you want to make testing more rigorous? Come to my school and teach math for a year and then tell me about the President's new plan. kg

[Guillaumet4peace]

With this awesome video, I could easily understand how nonsense it was to evaluate teachers' works by the test scores of their students. I hope US education system would get better with President Obama's new policy.

[NMMerilyn365]

hoooly shit?

[xtremetom180]

hmmm questionable at best

[jct09100]

Kids are not ready for college? Lmao.. As if our colleges are any better than highschools.. Our colleges are just as stupid as our highschool. You could be dumber than a door knob and get a college degree in the USA just like a highschool diploma. Face it. When it comes to education, USA is way behind compared globally. Kids are stupid because their parents are stupid. Generational stupidity. It's an american thing..

[59Julie378]

awesome

[TheAuroraamor1]

i meant to say i felt

[TheAuroraamor1]

@mrdudedaniel i fault i had to sign in so i could agree with you, your right its not the teachers fault or the parents fault its the kids job to wake up early, go to school, do their homework, behave in class, respect the people around them and do what their suppose to do instead of fooling around and when they get a bad grade they want to blame the teacher or their parent thats not the truth, its an excuse. don't blame other people for your mistakes.

[Hperman09]

Ever since the DOE was created during the Carter administration in the 1970s, it completely destroyed the standards and the public education entirely in the USA. People these days are at a high rate of illiteracy not to mention that some liberals and more importantly religious teaching gets in the way. What's the point of having federal spending if people these days pass through the easiest dumb-down courses.

It's best we should get rid of it and let the parents decided what they want.

[viall4diabetes]

The new and improved effort to make NCLB is going to swamp real teachers in more and more paperwork. It's going to be the IRS model in U. S. education.

See: ateacheronteaching.blogspot.co­m