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No Child Left Behind Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... No Child Left Behind Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make No Child Left Behind a Favorite! We also recommend... Hot Topics No Child Left Behind Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • classroom printables Site Map next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Post: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education Posted by Lea on 7/25/08 How have the standardized tests that are required for NCLB changed the way you teach or the way curriculum is managed in your school district? I know that in our state, the tests have very low standards, but since the kids have to pass it, that is all the core teachers teach. Since I am not a core teacher, I feel like a "forgotten child" and don't feel important at all. During the testing window, students are pulled out of class constantly, so lessons are impossible to plan and teach. The low standards really bother me. We have scores that show that the kids can pass and only answer 25 out of 60 questions correct. Then, the tests are counted as the exam grade, and kids who pass get an automatic "A". Talk about dumbing down education! What do the rest of you think? RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 7/25/08, by Lea. Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 7/25/08, by Kim/AR/math. Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 7/26/08, by Lea. Re: Standardized Tests and NCLB/Dumbing down education, 8/03/08, by competing for federal dollars.

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