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Pamela Stevens

Educational Leadership:Writing!:NCLB: Up Close and Personal - 0 views

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nclb No child left behind

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  • A recent national opinion poll of 1,050 registered voters shows increasing opposition to NCLB.
  • suggests that as voters become more familiar with the provisions of NCLB, they are less likely to support them.
  • but the percentage of voters who oppose the law has grown substantially—from 8 percent in 2003 to 28 percent in 2004.
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  • Fifty-eight percent disapprove of requiring special education students to take the same tests and perform to the same standards as students without disabilities, and almost half—46 percent—disapprove of holding students with limited English skills to the same standards as native English speakers.
  • 52 percent disapproved of his performance, with 25 percent indicating that he has done a poor job.
  • the majority of respondents favored a candidate who would fully fund Head Start (87 percent); reduce class size (87 percent); protect public education from budget cuts (83 percent); and increase teacher pay (82 percent).
  • The survey shows that as NCLB moves beyond the abstract idea of improving education into such real-world reforms as high-stakes testing and punishing schools for low performance on these tests, most parents have major concerns.
  • Thirty-four percent perceive it as punishing schools for failure instead of rewarding them for success, and 25 percent think that it limits student learning.
  • should go toward providing smaller classes.
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