Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

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Deborah Meier

Many Children Left Behind

How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

Deborah Meier

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English

Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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.

By: Deborah Meier
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 200mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 175g
ISBN: 9780807004593
ISBN 10: 0807004596
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

The editors and contributors are all highly respected experts in education and founding members of the Forum for Education and Democracy, a nonprofit organization for social change.

Reviews for Many Children Left Behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act Is Damaging Our Children and Our Schools

"""This is a valuable and insightful look at the most sweeping school-reform policy in 35 years."" —Booklist ""This book is a clarion call for a public education that serves all children well and a reminder that our functioning democracy is at stake."" —Publishers Weekly ""Many Children Left Behind does a chilling job of summarizing the case against the NCLB educational law and the policies put into place during George W. Bush’s administration. It reveals the fallacies, the hidden agendas and the distortions embedded in this act . . . This book marks an important stage in the dialogue about the future of American education."" —NoChildLeft.com"