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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“It would be more useful if we focused on more college oriented tests”
Michael Martinez is a senior at Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, Texas.
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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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“The situation for our students is particularly urgent”
William Schmidt is a University Distinguished Professor and currently co-director of the Education Policy Center at Michigan State University.
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“We need to redefine the prevailing idea of the standards movement”
Dr. William Sanders is a senior research fellow with the University of North Carolina system and is senior manager of value-added assessment and research for SAS Institute Inc. in Cary, N.C.
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“Need for independent oversight of high-stakes test and testing programs”
George Madaus is a professor of education and public policy and a senior fellow with The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy at Boston College.
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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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“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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