Elizabeth Edwards on No Child Left Behind

On January 20th, several bloggers sat down with Elizabeth Edwards in Iowa City, IA and asked her questions on a variety of topics. One of the most interesting conversations revolved around No Child Left Behind. Mrs. Edwards made several insightful comments.

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[TeamshakeNbake]

The "FIX" might be different in different buildings within the same district so it makes sense for an outside team to come in with input. But...how do you fix parents who don't encourage kids to do HW or even attend regularly? The increase of special education, ESL, and a variety of special needs students is overwhelming the public schools. More teachers are needed to meet the needs of the current population. No classroom should have more than 25 students in it!

[cultureshift]

Teamshake, truer words have not been spoken. More teachers, better pay, smaller classes. I've heard those very goals articulated by John and Elizabeth Edwards.

[11111119]

actually the no child left behind act actually caused many small schools in small towns to consolidate with bigger schools up to 100 miles away! heck my cusin has to drive 40 miles to school each day because his school was closed down.

[cultureshift]

Yes, it's a sad fact that No Child Left Behind was an unfunded mandate. Instead of "funding the fix" as Elizabeth Edwards is saying here, they went on a witch hunt.

[cyber1zen]

North Carolina has done a fantastic job pulling itself up by its educational bootstraps. That is the model to emulate. Not the underfunded No Child Left Behind, which is mainly a Trojan horse for privatizing and providing religious education.

[biz4kids]

Want smart education?

Then empower kids to learn how to be entrepreneurs early on in life. Schools should teach the subject, after all these kids are either going to work for a company (profit or non profit) or create their own path by owning businesses. Let's really teach them real life lessons. Why do we still have to follow the industrial age style of education while we are in digital, service- oriented age?

[garynesbit]

Since the US spends more per student than any other country on earth we have the best students on earth. At least that is what the students say about themselves.