YouTube Debate: No Child Left Behind - Scrap or Revise?


On July 23, 2007, CNN and YouTube partnered to sponsor the first Democratic primary debate of the 2008 election cycle. Questions were asked by citizens from around the country by uploading personal videos to the YouTube website.







Channel: News
Uploaded: July 24, 2007 at 12:24 am
Author: Politicstv

Length: 00:02:32
Rating: 4.66
Views: 18726

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deccacceb (November 10, 2008 at 10:10 pm)
screw the NFLB act. as a student going to school to be an art teacher i have learned that art classes are being dropped because bush&his staff don't think art serves a purpose but when really it does. art is can open the eyes to At-Risk children who are having a hard to with standardized testing.

so SCREW NCLB act. up yours!
ohsnap31 (November 10, 2008 at 12:28 am)
Guitardude,
Excellent comment.
GuitarDudeX (October 4, 2008 at 4:11 pm)
Very good point! 3rd graders are just not ready to deal with testing in the way they're put through it these days. Look what the schools are doing! At every level in Elementary schools now, kids are expected to do grade level work that they're just not ready for yet. I see it every year. So as a teacher, I have to "help" my kids with everything, or they can't get good grades. We teach to the test, we give the kids all the answers, then give them the test, then give them "A"s. It's wrong
GuitarDudeX (October 4, 2008 at 4:08 pm)
NCLB leaves behind the smart kids. NCLB forces teachers to focus all their energy on the kids who are struggling and will probably never even go to college. But the smart kids get forgotten about and are left mostly to fend for themselves. We should be helping the smart kids who are going to grow up and be our doctors, engineers, etc... We should be helping the smart kids get to college and help them be our leaders of tomorrow! I don't believe in standardized testing any way. It's B.S.

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