Comments on: Researchers Assert No Child Left Behind Act Is Fundamentally Flawed

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:01:15 +0000

Yes, people should read this. Though there is variability in people, most of the time I can train a kid to pass most state’s exams in about 6 months, given a year you can easily get up to 90th percentile. It’s all about training, how and when you do it.

The only issue is scale, and student motivation. Given one child of almost any ability you can train them to pass the exams easily. Given 40 children of varying ability and motivation and backgrounds it becomes more challenging, especially if they don’t want to be there or if they don’t like school, or if they are daydreaming.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:06:44 +0000

Reg,

Your raise some great question points – states do have specific graduation requirements and local schools can make them more challenging if they want to create higher standards. The concept is quite complex in total. I will take the time to collect some materials then do a post on this topic as I am sure other people have similar questions.

Tom Hanson
Editor

By: reg

reg — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:22:17 +0000

I cannot find a set standard for education anywhere. If three high school years math must be taken -can that be addition, subtraction, then multiplcation? All show progress, but is this enough to be a high school graduate? Is there a requirement in any subject for high school graduation? If so why are so many graduating nearly illiterate?

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By: aaron wall

aaron wall — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:55:35 +0000

It reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, a short story about how terrible the world would be if everyone was the same. http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html

I think the idea was to set standards at a level that made them meaningless, so they could easily prove that public education is worthless (with no basis in or near reality), thus supporting their gold to gentrify the public education just like the way they screwed up the health care industry.

It is a reflection of the cancerous state of short term capitalism at its worst.