Reign Error Summary

One important point I learned from reading Reign Error is that the author believes that public education is not broken, but some changes need to be made. The author states that the solutions from corporate reformers are wrong and that instead of helping schools their solutions are causing more problems.The author does not give a solution on how to better schools, but she does purpose a trial and error method. Schools have to be open to new ideas and these ideas should be tried in a small scale and then gather evidence before applying the ideas nationwide. An example of a terrible solution is No Child Left Behind ( NCLB); the author was a supporter for standards and testing, but after No Child Left Behind law she has changed her mind. She now believes that students need to have a wide ranging curriculum in order to succeed. We have readed plenty of articles that state that students need a wide ranging curriculum instead of just having math and reading. If students were forced to just take math and reading, then they would lose their creativity, have …show more content…
Now reformers are not thinking thoroughly before they make nationwide laws regarding children educations. NCLB was a nationwide law that declared all students must be tested annually from grade 3-8 and the students have to improve each year. The schools that fail to reach their annual target would be labelled as a school that needs improvement and would get sanctioned. By 2014 the law states that all schools should have 100% proficient students in reading and math; this of course did not happened and many public schools were labelled as failure schools. It makes me very upset that American education is being treated as a business. Reformers are making laws that benefit themselves and not the children and that is a very terrible