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Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools
By George H. Wood (editor) and Deborah Meier (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Beacon Pr
Publication date September 29, 2004
Pages 132
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780807004593
ISBN-10 0807004596
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.25 by 8 in.
Weight 0.30 lbs.
Original list price $14.00
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Summary
A citizen's guide to the 'No Child Left Behind' Act of 2002 argues that the bill changed education for the worse by imposing unrealistic standards for testing and harsh sanctions against schools that do not comply. Original.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country.

But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve:
* How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools
* How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools
* How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms
* And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives.

Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.

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9780807004593 | details & prices | 132 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $14.00
About: Discusses the negative effects of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and explains how this act punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools.

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