No Child Left Behind Campaign

*www.nea.org

*The amount Class of 2008 dropouts will cost the U.S.

*www.nea.org

*www.nea.org

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 is scheduled for reauthorization in 2008. In it’ssix years of practice, this act has led to greater numbers of high school dropouts and left schools struggling to make state testing requirements. A law intended to help students and schools in low-income areas has managed to do just the opposite.

As the time for reauthorization approaches, we must look closely at what this act has done and what changes need to be made in order to help U.S. students and schools.

The No Child Left Behind Act needs to be rewritten, but without support from the American public it will go unchanged. Contact your representatives and en-courage them to support the rewriting of No Child Left Behind.

NCLB affects us all.For more information, go to http://edlabor.house.gov.

*Dropout Factory: a school where less than 60% of a freshman class graduates in their senior year

What You Need to Know about the NCLB Act:

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 is scheduled for reauthorization in 2008. In it’ssix years of practice, this act has led to greater numbers of high school dropouts and left schools struggling to make state testing requirements. A law intended to help students and schools in low-income areas has managed to do just the opposite.


The No Child Left Behind Act needs to be rewritten, but without support from the American public it will go unchanged. Contact your representatives and en-courage them to support the rewriting of No Child Left Behind.


*The amount the dropouts of the Class of 2008 could have benefitted the U.S. economy had they earned their high school degree.



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The No Child Left Behind Act is scheduled for reauthorization in 2008. In it’s six years of practice, this act has led to greater numbers of high school dropouts and left schools struggling to make state testing requirements. A law that had intended to help students and schools in low-income areas has managed to do just the opposite.


The No Child Left Behind Act needs to be rewritten, but without support from the American public it will go unchanged. Contact your representatives and encourage them to support the rewriting of No Child Left Behind.


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The No Child Left Behind Act is scheduled for reauthorization in 2008. In it’s six years of practice, this act has led to greater numbers of high school dropouts and left schools struggling to make state testing requirements. A law that had intended to help students and schools in low-income areas has managed to do just the opposite.



For more information,check out these websites:

edlabor.house.govnea.orgboldapproach.orgeducatorroundtable.netall4ed.org

or contact your representatives.

What You Need toKnow about NCLB...

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In its six years of practice, No Child Left Behind has led to a greater number of high school drop-outs and has left schools struggling to make state testing requirements.

The Problem with NCLBAlthough the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 had such great intentions, many issues have developed since it was passed.

As teachers cut back on their curriculum and stu-dents struggle to pass their state’s standardized tests, dropout rates are in-creasing at an alarming rate. While many are unaware of the problems brought about by NCLB, these issues affect all Americans, as they will greatly impact the nation’s economy over the coming years.

As states are now required to assess schools, stan-dardized testing in the form of multiple-choice tests has become the most common method for evaluation. Schools are required to meet a certain percentage of passing students and are pressured to increase that percentage with each passing year.

As all students are also required to pass these state-designed tests as part of their graduation requirements, dropout rates are rising across the nation. The term “dropout factory” has been coined to de-scribe schools where less than 60% of a freshman class graduates in their senior year; it was reported in November 2007 that over 10% of the nation’s schools could be labeled as such.

While the intention was to increase the flexibility for schools to spend educational funding, NCLB requires schools not meet-ing standards to pro-vide tutoring, after-school services and summer programs. Although the act claims the funding can be spent as deemed fit by the school districts, funds are often spent on provisions required by NCLB standards. Schools not meeting NCLB standards risk being taken over.

For a law claiming to provide educators with the freedom to teach their curriculum as they please and to ensure a quality education for all students, it has ultimately achieved the opposite. Teachers must “teach to the test” or cut interdisciplinary work from their curriculum. Administrators are pressured to encourage struggling to students to transfer districts or to dropout rather than suffer the consequences for their poor performance on standardized tests. Yet with all of this, most parents and community members are largely unaware of not only the con-sequences of this act, but also of the act itself.

The No Child Left Behind Act must be rewritten, but without support from the American public it will go unchanged. Contact your representatives and en-courage them to support the rewriting of No Child Left Behind.

NCLB affects us all.

Please take the time to fill out the attached card and mail it to NCLB Chairman Miller. Or go to http://forms.house.gov/wyr to contact your representative about this important issue.

No Child Left Behind?

Can the U.S. afford NCLB?What you need to know...

For more information,check out these websites:

edlabor.house.govnea.org

boldapproach.orgeducatorroundtable.net

all4ed.org

or contact your representatives.

President George W. BushThe White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington D.C. 20500

Honorable George Miller, ChairmanCommittee on Education and Labor2181 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington D.C. 20515

What You Need to Know About the NCLB Act:

As the time for NCLB reauthorization is approaching, we must begin to look closely at what this act has done and what changes need to be made in order to help U.S. students and schools.

NCLB BackgroundOn January 8, 2002, President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act; the goal of NCLB, to provide all stu-dents with a high-quality education and to ensure that schools were held responsible for that education. Individual states were required to set the standards by which all schools would be accountable. In turn, school districts would receive greater flexibility on the spending of educational funding—the intent, to place the decision-making powers in the hands of those who know the needs of the students best, the educators. By providing this, NCLB was expected to help close achievement gaps based on race, gender, ethnic and economic backgrounds. In practice, however, this was not the case.

The Problem with NCLBAlthough the No Child Left Behind Act had such great intentions, many issues have developed since it was passed.

As teachers cut back on their curriculum and students struggle to pass their state’s standardized tests, dropout rates are in-creasing at an alarming rate. While many are unaware of the problems brought about by NCLB, these issues affect all Americans, as they will greatly impact the nation’s economy over the coming years.

As states are required to assess schools, standardized testing assuming the form of multiple-choice tests has become the most common method for evaluation. Schools are required to meet a certain percentage of passing students and are pressured to increase that percentage with each year.

As all students are also required to pass these state-designed tests as part of their graduation requirements, dropout rates are rising across the nation. The term “dropout factory” has been coined to de-scribe schools where less than 60% of a freshman class graduates in their senior year; it was reported in November 2007 that over 10% of the nation’s schools could be labeled as such.

While the intention was to increase the flexibility for schools to spend educational funding, NCLB requires schools not meet-ing standards to provide tutoring, after-school services and summer programs. Although the act claims the funding can be spent as deemed fit by the school districts, those funds are often spent on provisions required by NCLB standards. Additionally, schools not meeting NCLB standards risk being taken over by the government.

For a law claiming to provide educators with the freedom to teach their curriculum as they please and to ensure a quality education for all students, it has ultimately achieved the opposite. Teachers must now “teach to the test” or cut interdisciplinary work from their curriculum. Administrators are pressured to encourage struggling to students to transfer districts or to dropout rather than suffer the consequences for their poor performance on standardized tests. Yet with all of this, most parents and community members are largely unaware of not only the consequences of this act, but also of the act itself.


NCLB affects us all.Please complete the attached cards or go to http://forms.house.gov/wyr to find your representative’s contact information.

In its six years of practice, No Child Left Behind has led to a greater number of high school dropouts and has left schools struggling to make state testing requirements.

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The No Child Left Behind Act needs to be rewritten. As it stands now, this act makes no provisions for dealing with the increasing dropout rates across the nation and inadvertently encourages students to drop out of school. The growing number of dropouts affects everyone from the individual student to the average American citizen.

Please help these students, teachers, schools and our nation’s economy by supporting the rewriting of NCLB.

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