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
