The Girl He Left Behind

In a statistic shown by Marion Barlow, he shows that two years ago, less than ten percent of the students in North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Utah, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, and Louisiana took the SAT. More than seventy percents of the east coast (Including Massachusetts…

The second book assigned to me for my capstone leadership book is Leading with data: Pathways to improve your school. This topic is not a new subject to me with having read about data for several classes here at ACE. Data has never been so relevant in the field of education. Data is important to make changes on campus or illustrate results that must essential for schools to stay in operation. Every year schools look at data and decide what areas they need to improve upon if they want to make…

states are ready or able to offer the same level of education. The Common Core State Standards were implemented by the Federal Government in order to standardize education across America. These Common Core State Standards grew out of the No Child Left Behind program instituted by former president George W. Bush. One frightening realization many teachers come to have is that the Common Core State Standards are not a curriculum, but only standards that must be met. Now they must figure out for…

The No Child Left Behind Act, enacted by President George W. Bush, places more attention on core subjects with standardized tests, and therefore decreases the amount of attention given to the arts. Like the No Child Left Behind Act, the Common Core Standards, implemented in 46 states, emphasize standardized test subjects, excluding the arts in its main focus. Both, NCLB…

‘high stakes’ testing in schools. Parents are pushing their kids harder now than ever. Over the years, parent’s expectations have increased, therefore increasing stress on their children. For example, a seven year old boy was left in tears after both parents criticized how he was playing his soccer game. Dr. Henry Goitz says “parents who push too hard…

“YOU READ TO ME, I’LL READ TO YOU!” All my children screaming that sentence together reflect my ideal format for literacy development. My literate experience, with English as a Second Language, was unconventional; and, it somewhat mirrored the children’s book, You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You, by Mary Ann Hoberman. (Hoberman & Emberley, 2001) When you flip through the book, you can’t miss the colors accenting how the author wants her readers to interact with each other, the method that helped me…

The last four decades in American education have been influenced greatly by standardized testing; in return, creating an environment of stress and pressures on teachers, administrators, parents and most importantly our children. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was put into place in 2002. This Act seeks to increase student achievement by requiring schools to raise their standardized test scores or face consequences, including closure. (Clemmitt, 2015). The NCLB Act is supposed to help ensure…

Research Association, as "Any test that's administered, scored, and interpreted in a standard, predetermined manner." Standardized tests have been part of school systems since the 1800`s.(Standardized) Their use skyrocketed after 2002's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandated annual testing in all 50 states. Standardized testing confuses some students and the amount of testing can stress them out, leaving them to get bad grades on them denying them certain things like scholarships and grants or…

In the article, Do we need an assessment overhaul? Jay McTighe discusses how assessment in the United States is deeply flawed and needs to be changed. In 2011 when McTighe wrote the article, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was in its tenth year. NCLB is a federal statute that has required annual state testing in order to determine the success of local schools. The scores for each school are then published which was supposed to lead to heightened accountability between schools and districts and show…

No Child Left Behind Introduction The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was signed in 2002 by President Bush as a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. One of the main issues with the No Child Left Behind Act is that legislators are looking at the law from a standpoint of not being in the classroom and seeing how the act is implemented each and every day. When a new education act or law is passed, the legislators review the law and then if everyone agrees, it is…