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Teachers Find Federal Testing Most Troublesome

When teachers find compliance with federal testing more troublesome than violence or lack of funding, a serious re-examination of No Child Left Behind is in order. From the Christian Science Monitor:

[T]eachers cite compliance with new federal testing requirements as the most serious problem they face - more serious than lack of resources, incompetent administrators, student discipline, and personal safety issues.

The public also is concerned with NCLB.

The more Americans learn about Washington's new guiding hand in the nation's schools, the less they like it.

More than two-thirds say they don't think that a single test gives a fair picture of whether a school needs improvement, according to a new poll. They also don't believe that students with disabilities should be evaluated by the same standards as other students, the poll found.

Another case of agreeing in principle but disagreeing in means and method. An all too familiar refrain.

posted by niteskolar @ 4:53 PM