HUM LIF MDA SOC TH Theo Dawson What unrealistic standards and high-stakes tests do to children’s minds It started in the USA in 2001, with a federal law called No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This law mandated higher academic standards and…
AI HUM MDA GEN TA Tabrez Syed · Artificial Intelligence in Plain English Teaching to the Test: How Benchmark Gaming Could Influence AI Progress In 2000, George W. Bush came into the Oval Office on the wings of education reform, his Texas standardized testing policies a beacon of…
MDA SOC SCI PA Paul Thomas Understanding the Zombie Politics of the National Reading Panel in 2022 A core aspect of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation in 2001 was the report from the National Reading Panel (NRP) [1].
HUM AI KA Katy Moffitt Personal Mission My perception of what a Special Educator does comes from observing the teacher that I worked with back in Texas from 1989–1994. I was an…
HUM SH Shelley Buchanan, M.A. · Age of Awareness Since the onset of NCLB, teachers have had less and less sense of agency in their jobs. Educational reformers often bemoan the critical reception teachers give the lastest greatest curricular trend. Yes, teachers do often give…
MDA SPR WR Writing on the Wall No Church Left Behind — A Satirical Modest Proposal Often, the arguments for basing school funding on test scores has been based on the premise that schools that cannot demonstrate their…
HUM LIF SPR AL Allan rosen-ducat The Voice of the Uneducated Citizen In 2003 I was living in rural Maine with my wife and two children. We found our oldest daughter a ten student school run out of an old…
