No Child Left Behind goes to college?

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<p>I love it because when you say high stakes testing the inference is the high stakes are for the kids when in fact the high stakes are for the NEA and their union members. If a school turns out to be failing it is not the kids who end up suffering but he teachers and the adminitrators because the state's department of education has to then step in and do something about.</p>

<p>Also you know as well as I that NCLB has nothing to do with teacher certification. That is entirely on your state department of education and yes a lot of states have ridiculous laws. In Florida you have to graduate from a Florida school no matter you have a degree fro Columbia.</p>

<p>Believe me I know about the disparities between schools in the same school district and disparities between kids within the same school. There were 37 different languages spoken in my sons middle school and kids there who literally hadn't seen the inside of a school before coming to this country. But guess what. A whole lot can be masked if you don't have to disaggregate your test scores and when you can mask it you can just let the problem fester and get worse. NCLB is finally doing something about that.</p>

<p>But all of that is off topic because what we are talking about here is testing at the college and university level. I don't want to flog the dead horse of NCLB in a forum where the average poster considers Ted kennedy a moderate. I rather save my powder for issues I actually care about and have a shot at changing minds :-)</p>

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<p>Another good reason to go to a college outside the U.S.</p>

<p>This would be a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of higher education, and the ultimate goal of any thoughtful student. I sent my children to college to learn how to think, to be able to analyze and deconstruct arguements and political policy, to become responsible and creative adults--none of this can be tested by the educational bureaucracy.</p>

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<p>"I sent my children to college to learn how to think, to be able to analyze and deconstruct arguements and political policy, to become responsible and creative adults"</p>

<p>And how will you know if that happened?</p>