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Direct linkBehrent, Megan – Harvard Educational Review, 2009
High school teacher Megan Behrent reflects on the impact of Obama's election on the students in her high school classroom. Obliged to temper her students' joyful exuberance on the morning of November 5, 2008, Behrent found that the election fervor highlighted for her the ways that schooling under NCLB has constrained both educators and students,…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Presidents, African Americans
Download full textLopez, Doreen M.; Schroeder, Linda – Online Submission, 2008
This action research project was designed to maximize learning for all students by addressing different learning styles and implementing various strategies. The students in the targeted school exhibited difficulty in experiencing academic success while exposed to conventional teaching strategies. The two target schools consisted of an intermediate…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Action Research, Student Surveys, Classroom Environment
Jerald, Craig D. – Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, 2006
Every spring, education-related newspaper and magazine stories raise the alarm that schools are "teaching to the test." Scores of articles and editorials paint a disheartening picture of frustrated teachers forced to abandon good instructional practices for a relentless stream of worksheets based on boring, repetitive test-preparation…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teaching Methods, Testing, Standardized Tests
Rotberg, Iris C. – Educational Leadership, 2006
The current preoccupation in the United States with test-based accountability is founded on a set of faulty assumptions--about education practices elsewhere in the world, about international test score comparisons, and about the extent to which test scores are valid indicators of the quality of education or the state of the economy. For example,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Standardized Tests, Scores
McKim, Brent – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
The federal journey into public education has followed a long and winding road. Most educators know that the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is simply the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which dates all the way back to 1965. In the years since its initial passage, the ESEA road has taken a number of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Role of Education, Educational Change
Botzakis, Stergios – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
This article argues that, with all of its language about reaching "100% proficiency for all students in twelve years" as an "ambitious, but achievable" goal, the current federal administration seems to be on the side of the children in its No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), but further investigation reveals that many of the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Politics of Education, Accountability
