No Child Left BehindSarah Ekbatani and Lisa Hansen

Opening Statement

What is No Child Left Behind?

• January 8, 2009- Bush • Improve education: – low socio-economic–minorities– limited English speakers– special needs

• Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)

Effects on Schools

• Funding • Punishments• Extreme Charter school• Pressure to make AYP• Test prep• Testing time• Not graded, don’t try

Effects on the Arts, Especially Music

• FUNDING!

• Classroom time

• Curriculum

– non musical goals

New Gov outlook on NCLB- Duncan

• Wants to travel country• Three key things:

1. Early childhood education2. Better assessments3. Teacher quality

• Different per state– Doesn’t make sense

New Gov outlook on NCLB- Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsVimwm6xQ4&feature=related

The Issue

Is NCLB an effective piece of legislation?

Position 1 – Pro

• Good intentions

• Need accountability

• Incentive to do well

• Standardized testing

– SATS/ACTS/AP Etc.

Position 2 - Anti• Funding and Budget cuts – arts/sports/foreign language

• Test prep• Proficiency rates• No incentives• Support, not punish• Faculty jobs vs. test • Knowledge vs. Creative• Top students brought down

Position 3 – subject to change• Our position• Schools should improve• Bipartisan support• Original faulty, w/

improvements it could work

• Accountability, Sustainability, Flexibility

What does NCLB mean for us?

• Be creative• “Thumb our noses

at NCLB” or respect what it “imperfectly aspires to achieve.” (Walsh, 123)

• Skilled teachers • Embrace, not resist

QUESTIONS?

BibPublic Law 107-110 (2002) provided for Improving the academic achievement of the

disadvantaged. Retrieved from http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/107-110.pdf Ramirez, E., & Clark, K. (2009, February 5). What Arne Duncan Thinks of No Child

Left Behind. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2009/02 /05/what-arne-duncan-thinks-of-no-child-left-behind_print.htm

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Education, 58(2), 117-123. Weinstein, A. (2006). Obama on No Child Left Behind. Retrieved from

http://www.education.com/Obama_Child_Left_Behind/ Wood, G. (2004). Many children left behind. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.