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juan domingo farnoshttp://www.thisweekineducation.com/ Cartoon: Modern-Era Parental Scare Tactics
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Paula TousignantAlexander Russo's This Week in Education - enjoy the Best Blog of the Day
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Samantha BraunThis is a blog that is frequently updated with news from the education world.
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Joan JaeckelVideo: what kids look like playing video games. Michelle Rhee
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By all means, Congress should fix the unintended consequences of NCLB. But lawmakers should not undo the central consequence the law intended and the critics dislike: the demand that schools do better by the kids they fail.
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Although many complaints about the law are legitimate, the biggest problems come not from testing itself, but from the unstable compromise at the heart of NCLB. The law instructs states to get all students to 100 percent "proficiency" in reading and math by 2014, without imposing any common definitions of what students need to know. Each state has created whatever standards and tests it sees fit. This has set in motion two harmful trends. First, some states have lowered their standards to raise their pass rates. (In 2014, if students can use their handprints to sign their names, everyone will be proficient.) And second, 50 states have struggled to develop 50 sets of standards and 50 sets of tests to match. Both state budgets and the testing industry are stretched too thin, and low-level multiple-choice tests are too often the result.
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