The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 includes laws where funding will help schools where students perform well on state assessments. It also includes certain penalties on schools that don't perform as well. It also states that there will be more choices of which school you may attend if your assigned school isn't performing correctly. It will be focused more on mathematics and reading with annual tests from 3rd-8th grades. The goal is to have every child reading by the end of third grade. This act is extremely focused on reading. The author of "What 'No Child Left Behind,' Left Behind," is not afraid to speak her thoughts. While teaching every child how to read is all fine and dandy, he explains that "equity" should not be at the end of this so called "gap" that President Bush has designed.
He explains his point well because he is a teacher and she is able to prove Bush wrong in a way that shows him he has no idea what hes talking about. He's not a teacher so there is no way he knows how to control a classroom.
I agree with this author because money as a reward is not an answer for children who are having a harder time learning how to read
"There will be no excuses made for why we cant push all of our children across the achievement gap over to the fertile side and eventually, to equity, in the shining sky." I love this line because shes basically mocking the motivational speakers who are brain washed by Bush's new Act.
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