Majority would like 'no child' law left behind

I agree that there should be more stipulations added to the No Child Left Behind Law. We as parents want our children to get the best education possible, regarless of race or economic status. However teaching the test is not the best way to prepare children to meet or exceed the state requirement. From the beginning of the school year the states curriculum should match or go beyond what is required. Teachers and administrators should put into place whatever is necessary to insure that students have what they need academically throughout the year to succeed. It is not in the best interest of the student to teach the test a few months or a few weeks before the required state test date. Because of the No Child Left Behind Law, some of the lower end schools in our state have improved and they continue to do so. This law has forced parents to get involved with the schools. It has helped teachers and parents to connect. Upper end schools have always had a teacher- parent bond which has lead to having more successful students. Keep No Child Left Behind. Just make it better.

Schools need to be held accountable for teaching ALL students to read, etc. -- not just those who are the "smartest" or the wealthiest. They also need to start implementing research-based practices. If NCLB is to be abolished or significantly amended, then we need to make sure that these two conditions -- of teaching ALL students, and employing evidence-based practices -- are met... and we can't rely upon the states' dept of educations to handle that.

I believe the goverment should give more flexibilty to the states in regard to education. As a teacher I sincerly beleive we must go backto the basics. Teaching phonics so that thenatins childrencan read. Our nation is well below many other countries in academics, especially in reading.

Tell me, in your mind where does the accountability begin? I hear the answer all the time, it usually begins with the teachers. Well, let me tell you, there are enough problems that we ALL need to take an honest look at our system of funding and spending. People need to realize that much of our education problems come down to planning...and then funding. Don't ask how can teachers NOT be held accountable when YOU as taxpaying citizens aren't willing to fund our schools! YOU too should be held accountable for not being willing to pay so that EVERY child has an equal education!

We need to decide what we want, educated children who usually grow up to be adults who contribute to our economy, or those who fall behind and will continually draw from it. Either you pay now for early childhood programs, or you pay the BIG BUCKS later when they they end up in other state-funded systems like welfare or prison.

We need to decide who we want running our public schools as superintendents, do we want former teachers or do we want experts who know how to properly spend the money they are given. It is a tricky question, I know, I see it each and every year when money is allocated for new sod for the football field, or athletic uniforms, or new parking lots...it ticks me off that my school district does not think we can afford all-day-every-day kindergarten. We need to look and prioritize what money we have and spend it the best way possible for the future.

Our preschool, and all of the public preschools statewide, are NOT told how much funding they will have until mid to late September. We have only 64 openings in the preschool in our district and we have approximately 200 kids each year enter kindergarten. A percentage of those 64 kids receive free preschool, but it makes it difficult for parents to even plan on paying for our preschool program because they don't know if there will be an available opening for them to pay for in the fall. In recent years, each spring morning when the preschool director begins distributing enrollment packets to families of prospective preschoolers, they begin lining up before 7am for the 8:30am distribution. Unless they can afford to can enroll them in a private preschool program early in the spring before their child enters preschool in the fall, they are out of luck. It is my feeling that 4-year old preschool should be free to ALL children if their parents want to enroll them at a public preschool.

The results are that each fall I have children who enter kindergarten already reading because their parents have exposed them to books and libraries, and a host of experiences on which they build their vocabulary and one year, and many two years, of preschool. Then there are children who have not been with their peers and do not know how to interact with other kids, they do not yet know how to hold a pencil, marker, crayon or scissors--and cannot differentiate a number from a letter. There is already a wide gap in their education at 5 & 6 years old.

So, how can we possibly teach all kids all things when students begin their education with such disparities? And, explain to me how we can do it on far less money when there are Michigan school districts within 30 miles of ours who receive $9,000 per student and we receive under $6,000!

The per-student funding must become more equitable between our districts. Right now we have the rich getting richer, both in education and in their later ability to earn money, we have some poor qualifying for free headstart and other preschool programs. It leaves the middle class folks on their own and they are being squeezed tightly in the middle.

One Concerned Kindergarten Teacher

As I understand it, this education law has existed for some time. The "No Child Left Behind" mandate is its current incarnation. It is clearly time to change the way it is structured, as it does not improve the education experience for all -- or even most -- kids.

I provide professional development to teachers. What I have seen as a result of this mandate is teachers teaching to the test, in a desperate effort to achieve scores and therefore assure funding for their schools. Inquiry, creativity, and approaches to teaching that address the needs of the wide variety of learning styles among children -- these are reduced or eliminated in favor of a standard that serves only a few learners. In addition, recess is reduced or eliminated to allow for more testing time. Recess is essential time for children to be outside and active, building social skills, expressing their creativity, getting fresh air, and staying fit. The other essentials that suffer? Those things that help develop thoroughly educated, well-rounded individuals such as languages, music and art.

Children are unique. Their learning styles are diverse. We cannot continue with an education mandate that establishes rigid and narrow standards.

The reauthorization of No Child Left Behind is the manifest destiny of education reform. Among other things it needs to include national standards accompanied by a national assessment to measure students from all states.

A number of states administer "feel good" tests, relative to the federal tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly referred to as the "nation's report card?" In 2005 Tennessee tested its eighth-grade students in math and found eighty-seven percent of students performed at or above proficient while the NAEP test indicated only 21 percent of Tennessee's eighth graders proficient in math. In Mississippi, 89 percent of fourth graders performed at or above proficient on state reading test, while only 18 percent demonstrated proficiency on the federal test. In Alabama 83 percent of fourth-grade students scored at or above proficient on the state's reading test while only 22 percent were proficient on the NAEP test. In Georgia, 83 percent of eighth graders scored at or above proficient on state reading test, compared with just 24 percent on the federal test.

Oklahoma, North Carolina, West Virginia, Nebraska, Colorado, Idaho, Virginia, and Texas were also found to be guilty as charged in the area of "truth in advertising" where their determinations for proficient didn't seem to mean what they said. The duplicitous attempts by these states to meet proficiency by 2014 to comply with the NCLB legislation has created a firestorm of demands for federal standards and defined achievement levels as the only reliable indicators of performance at Washington's disposal.

I don't know about the rest of the poll, but the first question quoted is biased by the inclusion of a leading statement about critics' views. This question wouldn't have made it out of the gate in a first-year social science student assignment even. Google "push polling". It violates standards of survey research such as ESOMAR's http://www.esomar.org/uploads/pdf/ESOMAR_Codes&Guidelines_OpinionPolling_v5.pdf.
Judged on this alone, It looks like the "Institute" that did this poll is a sham, and the ScrippsNews papers of suspect objectivity. Kids have a hard enough time in school without being made a political football.

There would be no need for No Child Left Behind if people would do their jobs and parent their children. I interact more with my pets than some people do with their preschoolers! Anyone can be a mother or father, but parenting requires effort. People should be held more accountable for the children they choose to bring into the world. Children should start school with “the basics” already taught by the parents. My hat is off to teachers, as they are making up for the lame parenting skills of a lot of people in this country.

"No Child Left Behind.(unless you are high acheiving).In Houston ISD Schools, there is so little available in terms of space provided for the SO MANY talented children with very high scores and eagerness to learn. They end up in a lottery competing for placement in the two or three schools in the entire district that provide the atmosphere and curriculum to receive a higher education. I know this information for a fact. What I do not know is has anyone realized how many childred are put into a lottery just to attend the basic classes offered in HISD. How many classes are offered to ESL vs Vanguard/IB in HISD? Some how I do believe the motivated and future leaders of America are not being offered the same amount of space, time and education as EVERYONE else in HISD. I am sure other districts have this same issue but I can only speak for HISD as this is my childrens school district. Why is this happening? This is affecting these children in such a negative way. A lot of them fall under negative peer pressure because there are in a class with others that do not care. A lot of them just quit attending regularly because they are so BORED with the work, so they fall behind for not doing the work they could do without being taught. Things they learn in Vanguard elementary school they are having to listen to in High School regular programs unless they get into one of the three good high schools in hisd. Ohink our childre w"
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I consider that President sometimes Bush publishes absurd laws and lawsprogects. I think, that first of all Bush must think about education of USA children, because their education has the less level. It's the largest problem of America.
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Well-educated people, especially college graduates and those who've attended post-graduate schooling, are especially likely to call for changes to the law. People who have public school children at home are somewhat more likely to want the law altered or abolished than are people who don't currently have children in school.
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Whenever there is an exceptionally smart person in a school, no child left behind makes it to where that child cannot excel. It limits the schools to teach for just the test and if the student has learned what is on the test already, he/she cannot move on and learn new material. So I think that the No Child Left Behind law should be changed to allow schools to teach beyond the test, and become more influential in the student body.

This makes me think of the recent story about Miss Teen South Carolina: She's probably a great test taker. When well rehearsed, she can seem to make intelligent statements. But when the moment of critical thinking arrived, she totally failed. The "great test takers" (bubble fillers) are praised and the system builds itself around this mentality. The critical thinkers, future artists, etc, are held back or ignored entirely.

The No Child Left Behind Act that President Bush signed into law in 2002 was intended to reform Americas educational system and promised to be the answer for the nations educational gap. I believed it was a winning formula: The ideas and thoughts conveyed in the law had the potential to be the perfect program for Americas schools, and students.
The law promised to ensure the same education for children from low-income families attending public schools that children in private and parochial schools receive. NCLB is filled with rhetoric stressing the importance of having highly qualified teachers, encouraging and nurturing literacy in children, allowing parents to have choice in which school their child goes to, and holding schools accountable for the educational outcome of its students. The law promised adequate funding to achieve these goals.
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"Nearly two-thirds of American adults want Congress to re-write or outright abolish the landmark No Child Left Behind Act that mandates nationwide testing of elementary students to determine if public schools are performing adequately." - here i agree...

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"Nearly two-thirds of American adults want Congress to re-write or outright abolish the landmark No Child Left Behind Act that mandates nationwide testing of elementary students to determine if public schools are performing adequately." - i agree to..

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"Well-educated people, especially college graduates and those who've attended post-graduate schooling, are especially likely to call for changes to the law." - i disagree with you!
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I don't think this law is right,but can say only one thing that leave everything to the teachers,they are the responsible to teach our children and I feel they teach right,more answer can give teachers only about this law.
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Although this legislation has had a dismal performance according to a small sample of folks...let it be known that thousands of schools have seen their performances increase over the last 5 years...it was the same schools that were failing, yes the ones during the glamourous clinton admin...reality is, we need bipartisan reform...it'll never happen with the knuckleheads we got in power, both dems and reps

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Congress....If in fact you choose to merely make adjustments to this law, please consider the psyche's our children, and consult with a panel of psychologists prior to doing it. Things you might ask them: Have our children been suffering to meet the expectations to achieve the standards which have been set for them due to this law? What are the statistics of anxiety related disorders in children, which are being brought on by the high expectations being imposed on them acedemically? Can a child this age be expected to acheive the goal being placed before him with ease?

My twin boys are in third grade, and are currently learning the standards I was taught in high school. Multiplication was presented to them in second grade. We are a two income family. Upon coming home from work, instead of being able to spend quality family time with our kids discussing life lessons, etc., my husband and I sit with them for sometimes 2 hours, due to the massive amount of homework they are assigned as to assure all their homework is completed. Back when I went to school, homework was not this big of a demand on my time. It only took a half hour at the most. I feel The lifestyles of our kids and families in America, as well as the creativity of our teachers are suffering due to this law.

While I believe that a good education is key to the life you live, and the jobs you work upon becoming an adult, I do believe we are "human beings" and not "human doings". I want my kids to have a good education, and I support that by assuring they tend to their studies. But, secretly, I wonder if we are pressing our children too hard at such an early age due to this law. Thank you for your time.

As a father I noticed how his homework (he's in the 3rd grade) is really hard compared to when I was his age. I was in a private school in high school that was leaps ahead of the public school system here. Our governement needs to do something about this.

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I am a sixteen year old student in Oklahoma. I have had straight A's all through school until my sophomore year. It is mostly due to the class enviroment's and all the distractions that come with them. I do not think that we should have abolished the "higher or gifted" classes for students. I do agree that students that can not get into these gifted classes should have a choice to take an Ap or Pre-Ap class. I loved my 7th grade Forum class. It was a hands-on history class that pushed us to try harder, look further into our education, and enjoy learning. Most of us learn with more of a hands-on mentality, and honestly, it worked wonders for me. Right now, I am in an on level history class that has a terrible learning enviroment, therefore making it harder for me and other students to learn. I think that we should abolish it and offer Pre-Ap and gifted classes to students that are willing and want to learn.

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Survey has been conducted but it should be conducted all over the United States. I know it has been done but why there are so many errors?