Advice on NCLB
Since it’s inception No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been a hot button issue for educators and policy makers. Now that President Obama is in office should we get rid of NCLB or keep the system in place?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice that Randall Collins the president of the American Association of School Administrators, Jack Dale, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Sandy Kress, former education advisor to George W. Bush, and Eric Scroggins the Executive Director of Teach for America in the San Francisco Bay Area offered to the next President regarding NCLB.
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“Stop standardized testing. It is affecting the dropout rates.”
Kattye Gonzalez is a sophomore at Validus Preparatory Academy.
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“Focus on poverty”
Dan Domenech former superintendent of Fairfax County, Va., Public Schools is currently the Executive Director of the American Association of School Administrators.
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“Make sense out of this economy”
Jack Jennings is president and CEO of the nonpartisan Center on Education Policy.
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“We have to move towards higher standards”
Paul Vallas is currently superintendent of the Recovery School District of New Orleans, Louisiana. He was formerly the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS).
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“There are many issues in our school that need to be resolved and we can’t wait 2-3 years”
Gerald Tirozzi is the executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. He served as Connecticut’s Commissioner of Education from 1983-1991 and as Assistant Secretary of Education for the Clinton Administration.
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“The need for far-improved assessment”
Monty Neill is deputy director of Fair Test, a Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit that works to advance quality education and equal opportunity by promoting fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial evaluations of students, teachers and schools.
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“Rethink education policy to involve things beyond school”
Paul Tough is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and the author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America.
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“No child has ever been saved by a standardized test”
Randall H. Collins is the superintendent of schools in Waterford, Connecticut and is the President of the American Association of School Administrators.
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“No Child Left Behind should be revised”
Walter Haney is a professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods, in Boston College’s School of Education and also Senior Research Associate in BC’s Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy.
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