Education Law

Obama?s education policies

Today in The Washington Post, Dana Milbank questions President Barack Obama?s education policies, noting, ?Obama has taken the worst aspect of Bush’s No Child Left Behind education law — an obsession with testing — and amplified it. Obama has expanded the importance of standardized testing to determine how much teachers will be paid, which educators will be fired and which schools will be closed — despite evidence that such practices are harmful.?

BoardBuzz believes there needs to be vast improvements to No Child Left Behind including reevaluating the emphasis of standardized testing. We should not assess the quality of a school on a student’s performance on a single assessment; and then mandate a series of overly broad sanctions that are not always targeted to the needs of the students.   To date, the strategies in No Child Left Behind have not yet proven to have a significant impact on improving student or school performance.

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Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on August 15, 2010 (boomark / email).