Friday, January 9, 2009

No Child Left Behind

A recent article in NEA Today highlights some important trends in national test scores and argues that NCLB hasn't made anything better. Take a look at these 2 graphs:



Some thoughts on how this happened:
What happened to make that possible? The War on Poverty? School desegregation? Shrinking class size? Head Start and other new school programs? Maybe all of the above.
Now compare that to education reform in the era of NCLB:


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Also, the time scales on those two graphs are very misleading. The first covers eighteen years, the second only covers ten. - Dank