Kategorier: Alle - standards - impact - progress - creativity

af Barbara Derer 16 år siden

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Standards-Based Education & NCLB

The implementation of standards-based education, highlighted by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) initiative, has sparked extensive debate regarding its efficacy and impact on various stakeholders within the educational system.

Standards-Based Education & NCLB

Standards-Based Education & NCLB

Effects on Students

Tests Don't Focus On/Encourage Special Abilities Like Art, Music, etc
Test-taking Anxiety/Pressure to do Well

Parents

Given More Choice on Where Child Goes to School Based on Standards
School Vouchers
Partners

Teacher Quality

Provide Additional Professional Development Opportunities
Supposed to Measure Teacher Quality

Impact on Teachers

Designed to Improve Teacher Quality
Limits Curriculum
"Teaching to the Test"
Limits Teacher Creativity and Flexibility
Are standards well written?
Provide direction, but not Rigid

School library can help achieve AYP

LMS Provides Mterials to Raise Zcores
Non Fiction Reading Materials, Math Aids, etc
Support of Principal

Subgroups

Is Relying Soley on Standards the Right Approach?
Deserve a Good Education

Accountability

Measures only One Item
No Measure of Progress Toward that Score
Achieving a Certain score
Adequate Yearly Progress Benchmarks
Identify Schools in Need
At What Educational Cost?
Economic Factors

Schools That Need the Most Aid Receive the Least Based on Scores

Or Are students now Better Test Takers?
Is Education Better?

Controversial

Transformation

Standardized Tests
Fairness of Tests

Academically Gifted not Challenged

Minority Students/Students with Learning Disabilities at Disadvantage

Input to Output based

Reports

Annual Performance and Accountability Reports
A Nation at Risk, 1983