Educators Expect Obama To Change No Child Left Behind

One of President Bush's most noteworthy accomplishments - the No Child Left Behind law enacted in 2002 - might undergo some fundamental changes when President-elect Barack Obama takes office.

To many educators in the suburbs and across the country, that's a good thing - though they say the new administration shouldn't scrap the law entirely.

"We shouldn't abandon it," said Joyce Karon, an Illinois State Board of Education member from Barrington. "No one can say that any child should be left behind, educationally."

Obama said during the presidential campaign that while he supports the law's overall goal, he believes the program needs fixing.

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[djgonebad]

Having taught Creative Metal Welding in Detroit after school programs, along with Art at a charter school; I'm an outsider inside the system. I know that Detroit is one of the worst systems, and it's been left dead for decades. So it's going to take more than "No Child Left Behind" for it to come back.

There is almost nothing for Kids to do. Remember, here in Detroit, recreation centers closed down; the drop-out rate is leading the nation; broken homes and abandoned houses are everywhere; few jobs, few fathers; the car industries dying; and etc., etc., etc.,

Alternatives are needed, as well as a better school system, to reach these kids and save them from the nothing lives that await many of them.

But HOPE is now on are side!!! Lets Go!! Open minds are needed in order to open minds.

[DontJustFollow]

How can we get such bad results when we dump so much money into our public schools? I think public schools and the big 3 have a lot in common...

[Cookie100]

Is anyone aware, that No Child Left Behind requires a written test by ALL students throughout the country.

Are you aware who sells that test which is 20 TIMES MORE THAN THE LAST TEST SOLD THROUGHOUT

the US for the same testing purposes? NEAL BUSH, OUR VERY OWN PRES. BROTHER!

Wonder whom ever dreamed up, no child left behind?

[brenniewinters]

Children are being Left Behind

What a shame that our children which happen to be our future are going hungry in this USA. Especially in the Summer months.