children’s rights
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Children’s
Rights/Decade for
Childhood: No Child
Left Behind (NCLB)
ByKellee R. Smith
Group 1
CH
ART
Why is the NCLB Important?
Affects teachers and students
Grades K-12
Equal Education
-Mainstreaming
Positive and Negative Impacts
Accountability for results
NCLB Goals that by 2013/2014, all students will test at profiecent.
In the Beginning…
Passed by President George W. Bush and Ted Kennedy in 2001
Federal Law
Controversial
Reading/Math…Later Science
Positives from NCLB
• Annual report card sent out annually to parents about student’s progress.
• More options for parents to move their child to better schools.
• Special needs are being taught the same curriculum
• Closing achievement gap
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Negatives of NCLB
“Dumb Down” teaching-teaching to the test
Drill and Kill
Teachers are being limited to what they can teach (students are being limited to what is taught)
Underfunded
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Make You Say HMM
• FYI, “Immigrants and English Language Learners need one to two years to develop social language. In addition, to devlop academic language, this takes between four to nine years to develop” ( Cummins, 2000, Pg.10).
• Your ELL students have 3 years before they have to take the test.
It’s Showtime!
• Youtube.com/watch?v=LV7od-RU1Ju