Failures of No Child Left Behind Act
Education should be personalized and not standardized. Today’s education is build on the principles of the Industrial Revolution, which focused on creating and producing identical “consumer” products cheaply and ensuring quality control. This is why the No Child Left Behind Act is detrimental to our education system today. It has handed education into the hands of the federal government. The government has taken great management over the education and is limiting creativity and imagination which inspires children to learn. The government needs to change their focus and goals from trying to create a system of education that focuses on teaching children a one size fits all curriculum, to inspiring children …show more content…
Johnson’s Great Society Program. The NCLB was enacted to hold schools responsible in monitoring the academic progress of all children from K-12. It put emphasis on performance ensuring that the states and schools boosted educational levels of students (Klein 1-9). It holds schools and teachers accountable for students outcomes. If the states did not chose to comply they would be at risk of losing federal Title I funding for the schools. “The No Child Left Behind Act was the product of a collaboration between civil rights and business groups, as well as both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill and the Bush administration, which sought to advance American competitiveness and close the achievement gap between poor and minority students and their more advantaged peers. Since 2002, it’s had an outsized impact on teaching, learning, and school improvement—and become increasingly controversial with educators and the general public” (Klein …show more content…
“The system” grinds forward, at ever increasing cost and declining efficiency, dispiriting students, teachers and parents alike” (Denning 1). Education should rely on imagination, creativity, interests, and inspirations. The Common Core takes away those things. We do not know what job fields will be open twenty years from now. Therefore, we cannot know the knowledge or skills will be needed to prepare the children. We simply cannot teach a specific curriculum for overtime it will become outdated and not beneficial. The best thing we can do for our children is to inspire lifelong learning with a love for education, so that they can pursue knowledge in desired and interest based fields of
Education should be personalized and not standardized. Today’s education is build on the principles of the Industrial Revolution, which focused on creating and producing identical “consumer” products cheaply and ensuring quality control. This is why the No Child Left Behind Act is detrimental to our education system today. It has handed education into the hands of the federal government. The government has taken great management over the education and is limiting creativity and imagination which inspires children to learn. The government needs to change their focus and goals from trying to create a system of education that focuses on teaching children a one size fits all curriculum, to inspiring children …show more content…
Johnson’s Great Society Program. The NCLB was enacted to hold schools responsible in monitoring the academic progress of all children from K-12. It put emphasis on performance ensuring that the states and schools boosted educational levels of students (Klein 1-9). It holds schools and teachers accountable for students outcomes. If the states did not chose to comply they would be at risk of losing federal Title I funding for the schools. “The No Child Left Behind Act was the product of a collaboration between civil rights and business groups, as well as both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill and the Bush administration, which sought to advance American competitiveness and close the achievement gap between poor and minority students and their more advantaged peers. Since 2002, it’s had an outsized impact on teaching, learning, and school improvement—and become increasingly controversial with educators and the general public” (Klein …show more content…
“The system” grinds forward, at ever increasing cost and declining efficiency, dispiriting students, teachers and parents alike” (Denning 1). Education should rely on imagination, creativity, interests, and inspirations. The Common Core takes away those things. We do not know what job fields will be open twenty years from now. Therefore, we cannot know the knowledge or skills will be needed to prepare the children. We simply cannot teach a specific curriculum for overtime it will become outdated and not beneficial. The best thing we can do for our children is to inspire lifelong learning with a love for education, so that they can pursue knowledge in desired and interest based fields of