Abstract:
Since the enactment of No child left behind the policy has acquired much criticism and controversy amongst educators, parents and the public. The standardized test have shown to be a non-effective measure to determine the proficiency and an unjustly representation of students whom exhibit language barriers such as Latin American immigrants. Since education is the foundation for social change many Latin Americans are not being able to reach their full potential under this act, thus denying the advancement in education to promote social change. Listed below is the issue at large with it’s pro and cons. Also with the deadline of NCLB at reach suggestions are stated in order attempt to attain full education equality for students …show more content…
Latino/a Americans as well as with African Americans today are considered “minorities”. Many of these “ minorities” are being isolated into communities of poverty, which fosters the antagonism of war on people and denies the advancement of social change. Many local community organizations such as Palenque believe that education is a foundation for social change. The No Child Left Behind Act was an act of congress in 2002 in which concentrated closing the achievement gap (overall success long term) between privileged and underprivileged students. The implement of this act emphasizes standardized tests to all American public schools in order to reach a level of 100 percent proficiency by the school year 2014. (No Child Left Behind Act Pros and Cons - HRFnd. (2014). The intention of these standardized tests is to measure student achievements and to assure that students are meeting essential requirements constructed by their states. Since its enactment, the NCLB has garnered many criticism and controversy amongst educators, parents and the public. The controversy that arose was that with such diverse sub groups many students that …show more content…
This assumption has neglected the language barriers that many immigrants such as Latinos/as face. Thus leaving Latinos/as in a disadvantage in achieving the academic requirements. As of June 30 2005, out of a total of 1,029,540 enrolled students 143,575 or approximately 13% were considered ELL students. In the year of 2000-01, 64% of ELL’s were Latin descent (Hostetler, 2005). With such statics, many Latinos/as are unjustly represented in education and society. Other factors that contribute to the NCLB downfall are that standardized test depicts the accountable of schools and school officials. Based on the performance of these assessments provide the funding for schools yearly. With funding being effected many teachers/school officials are cheating the test and the standards are lower. According to ABC news in July 6, 2011, 178 Atlanta public school teachers and administrators from 44 schools were discovered to be erasing incorrect answers and replacing them with the correct answers in order to increase test scores. At one school, the faculty confessed to engaging in weekend pizza parties to correct the student’s answers. A fourth grade teacher named Sidney Falls stated that because of NCLB “we were told to get these scores by any means necessary and we were told our jobs were on the line”. Cheating the system delivers a disadvantage to the students,
Since the enactment of No child left behind the policy has acquired much criticism and controversy amongst educators, parents and the public. The standardized test have shown to be a non-effective measure to determine the proficiency and an unjustly representation of students whom exhibit language barriers such as Latin American immigrants. Since education is the foundation for social change many Latin Americans are not being able to reach their full potential under this act, thus denying the advancement in education to promote social change. Listed below is the issue at large with it’s pro and cons. Also with the deadline of NCLB at reach suggestions are stated in order attempt to attain full education equality for students …show more content…
Latino/a Americans as well as with African Americans today are considered “minorities”. Many of these “ minorities” are being isolated into communities of poverty, which fosters the antagonism of war on people and denies the advancement of social change. Many local community organizations such as Palenque believe that education is a foundation for social change. The No Child Left Behind Act was an act of congress in 2002 in which concentrated closing the achievement gap (overall success long term) between privileged and underprivileged students. The implement of this act emphasizes standardized tests to all American public schools in order to reach a level of 100 percent proficiency by the school year 2014. (No Child Left Behind Act Pros and Cons - HRFnd. (2014). The intention of these standardized tests is to measure student achievements and to assure that students are meeting essential requirements constructed by their states. Since its enactment, the NCLB has garnered many criticism and controversy amongst educators, parents and the public. The controversy that arose was that with such diverse sub groups many students that …show more content…
This assumption has neglected the language barriers that many immigrants such as Latinos/as face. Thus leaving Latinos/as in a disadvantage in achieving the academic requirements. As of June 30 2005, out of a total of 1,029,540 enrolled students 143,575 or approximately 13% were considered ELL students. In the year of 2000-01, 64% of ELL’s were Latin descent (Hostetler, 2005). With such statics, many Latinos/as are unjustly represented in education and society. Other factors that contribute to the NCLB downfall are that standardized test depicts the accountable of schools and school officials. Based on the performance of these assessments provide the funding for schools yearly. With funding being effected many teachers/school officials are cheating the test and the standards are lower. According to ABC news in July 6, 2011, 178 Atlanta public school teachers and administrators from 44 schools were discovered to be erasing incorrect answers and replacing them with the correct answers in order to increase test scores. At one school, the faculty confessed to engaging in weekend pizza parties to correct the student’s answers. A fourth grade teacher named Sidney Falls stated that because of NCLB “we were told to get these scores by any means necessary and we were told our jobs were on the line”. Cheating the system delivers a disadvantage to the students,