No Child Left Behind: A Decade of Failure

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The No Child Left Behind Act was meant to compel states to adopt high standards and rapidly improve K-12 education in public schools. It is now clear that NCLB has been a failure and has set the stage for even greater federal control over curriculum. The solution, contrary to what many advocates claim, is to get the federal government out of America's classrooms. Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, comments on NCLB's decade of failure.

Video produced by Caleb O. Brown and Austin Bragg.

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[ForTehNguyen]

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

– Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

[dragknuckle]

Shut down the Department of Education.

[zadeh79]

@SeventhSun Standardizing tests, have been carefully designed is in favor of the genetic elite, and are used in tautologically found arguments, to support the notion of IQ. Studies of problems on standardized tests reveal they are saturated in Gc, or crystallized reasoning component (which is the predominate component on conventional IQ tests) , and largely devoid of Gf, the permeable quality of fluid intelligence.

[zadeh79]

No rich white child left behind, is more like it.

[Hperman09]

Public education system has gone down the drainer with the DOE act signed in the 1970s.

[shawn362]

How about in elementary school and middle school, students learn the basis fundamentals needed. Then, high school becomes not only an education facility that prepares students for college but should truly focus more on introducing them to careers that could spark their interest. Colleges now have to do that in their first two years by taking classes not pertaining to their major because high schools don't focus enough on career choices.

[djb5255]

@SeventhSun I'm not sure what you're referring to with regards to my self-denial, but personal attacks notwithstanding it is not only logically incoherent but also utterly immoral to teach anyone, especially children, that they are held liable by some natural law for the transgressions of their ancestors. I'm not going to make a case for an immaculate set of founding fathers, but slavery was a controversial issue even when the Articles of Confederation and Constitution were drafted.

[Shonenut213]

@SeventhSun The DoE hasn't done shit to educate people. The one who is nuts is YOU uneducated idiot!

[XCritonX]

@SeventhSun The institutes that I am thinking of are funded by voluntary donations, not money extorted by taxes. There does exist a world outside of government.

[SeventhSun]

@18wheeler76

You may disagree with the theories of the various subjects taught, but you cannot deny education is a test of discipline, knowledge and even intelligence and it is usually rigorous for a reason.

Go be a farmer then. I respect them for their long labor in the fields just so we could have our food, but I doubt everyone much less you has the aptitude to be one.