No Child Left Behind [Documentary Film]

After spending a year as a student teacher in a New York City elementary school, documentary filmmaker Lerone Wilson explores the effects of George W. Bush's momentous No Child Left Behind Act on schools across the country.

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[Angelrust]

This was indeed a good documentary, If you ever decide to do a follow up. I beg with you, Hell I plead with you to do a documentary about California eduction. Being that California is my home state, I assure you. If you did a movie about eduction in this state, you'll have teachers in droves waiting to be interviewed and give their two cents

[BoondoggleFilms]

@Angelrust You know, the sad thing is that I've heard similar comments from teachers and educators in various cities and states that I've shown the film in. Unfortunately, public education across the country has seen better days. Being forced to bear the brunt of funding cuts from state governments as a result of the recession has been making things even worse these past few years since the film was completed.

[RoboHeartbreak]

Great doccumentary

[BoondoggleFilms]

@RoboHeartbreak

Thanks!!! It was a ton of work, but probably the most fun I've had working on a film. It was for a great cause as well...

[Stillwater900]

This is all deliberate, if you can believe that. The elite wrote about purposefully overburdening educational systems to sink them, with an emphasis on removing real critical thinking from curriculums.The last thing they wanted was a population that could understand that they were LITERALLY being enslaved, turned into serfs in a neo-feudalistic system. Its not about left or right, they are controlled by the same people at the top, its a false paradigm.

[zadeh79]

Standardized testing is merely a tool to advance the genetic elite and, tautologically, the merits of IQ scores. Standardized tests correlate well with measures of crystallized intelligence as measured by conventional IQ tests. The same can not be said of the relationship between measures of , the largely permeable type of reasoning known as fluid intelligence, and standardized tests. Essentially, children with higher fluid intelligence, may in fact, score very poorly on standardized tests.

[DudeTheFamous]

Went to school in the L.A.U.S.D. went to Figueroa Elementary, Gompers MIddle School and Locke High School. No child left behind did far more damage than any good. I still have friends who were passed that can't read, write, did not pass, had very low grades and are now struggling in life since my graduating year of 2008. I've known white teacher to say this program was a joke, setting us up for failure. I thought is was racist, but I listened, I understand now, the schools system here is a joke

[MagicalSix]

"without authority, there is no accountability" LMAO, Actually, if we were going to be realistic and 100% truthful, that cock sucker would have said "With authority, there is no accountability."

[cosmokramer4215]

My wife is from a poor foreign country where the majority of the students are of color and are in severe poverty, yet these students are academically advanced to the students here in the USA. When an American student goes to their school they automatically get held back one year because they cannot keep up. The problem here in America is that our students are sexually abused at early ages and they have been damaged emotionally and need mental health services that a school can't do. IMHO.

[chillichomper]

This is a VERY simple problem to solve and it requires 2 things to happen.

1) Fed provides a standard test that must be passed by all kids nationwide to graduate elementary, middle and high school. Fed issues certificate. This will ensure standards are met across nation.

2) Let the states decide how they want kids to be educated to pass those standardized tests. People will vote with their feet and we won't hear anymore sob stories from teachers who say they're powerless.



[caysayfla]

"We don't think in bubbled ways"? Is this woman against NCLB or multiple choice tests in general?

[zadeh79]

The anti-progressive environments created by public school policy is a ticket to failure. Traditional education , which has a heavy emphasis on test-taking abilities, and (at best) crystallized intelligence, has monopolized are children's schools for too long. The tests correlate miserably with real world achievement, despite attempts by traditional liberals. I am grossly in favor of expanding our privatized options, with respect to education. That's the least we could do.

[1falconeye2]

@Stillwater900 Of course. The idea started in the 1970's: "dumbing down the curriculum: They want to create robots, not thinkers!

[riseingstardust]

IT IS A GOOD DOCUMENTARY. BUT THE WHOLE WORLD IS ABOUT TO CHANGE AND THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM ALONG WITH IT. YOU WILL SEE VIRTUAL TEACHERS AND PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO PLUG INTO THE INTERNET FOR INFORMATION...RESEARCH A RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY AND YOU WILL GET A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE EITHER ZEITGEIST OR THE VENOUS PROJECT IS A GOOD PLACE TO START.

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

[lovelara2]

I suppose no child is left behind if every child is left behind...