Poll: No Child Left Behind did not improve education
By Rachel Lowry, Deseret News
More Americans — 29 percent — believe education is worse because of the No Child Left Behind Act than those who believe it is better off (16 percent).
Another 38 percent said the act of Congress that changed the federal government’s role in public schools by focusing on student achievement has made no difference, according to a Gallup’s annual Work and Education poll.
“Such ambivalence probably gives the Obama administration broad political latitude to modify NCLB through executive fiats, such as the recent decision to grant states waivers from meeting the law’s key benchmarks,” Gallup noted.
A random telephone sample of 1,012 adults, ages 18 and older, living across the U.S. and the District of Columbia, was conducted Aug. 9-12. The poll found that 17 percent were too unfamiliar with the law to rate it.
Congruent with Gallup’s findings in 2009, the poll found that lower-income Americans were evenly divided in their opinions of NCLB, while middle and upper-income Americans viewed the act negatively. Twenty-two percent of adults in households earning less than $30,000 a year are more likely to believe the law has made public education better, while 15 percent did not.
The best solution for education is to get the Government out of it and get back to the basic’s. Throwing money at education as resulted in no marked improvement in student achievement and in fact an argument can be made that the more we give the less we get in return. This is not to say education isn’t important, it is but, for the most part education has become a political game and the union’s have only increased costs while making our educational system overly expensive and less effective. The good teachers should be paid more, the bad replaced, these are basic business rules with proven success. This combined with choice will go a long way in making our educational system much better.
KAE In the year 2006 The Bush did not fully fund the act.This was after the reforms were acted upon.
War funds for Halliburton,KBR and other friends like Blackwater,DYN Rummnys shadow army came first.
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Really interesting