Leaving Children Behind: How no Child Left Behind Will Fail Our Children

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 225-228

  Neill, Monty ^a  

^a National Center for Fair and Open Testing   (United States)

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EID: 0242595915     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308500311     Document Type: Review

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1. The name of the law, the No Child Left Behind Act, was derived from the famous slogan of the Children's Defense Fund, "Leave no child behind. " The CDF itself has a more wide-ranging conception of what this phrase means, as can be seen in the act it supports, The Act to Leave No Child Behind, available at www.cdfactioncouncil.org/act.htm.
2. Achieve, Inc., "Measuring Up: A Standards and Benchmarking Report for Massachusetts," October 2001, available at www.achieve.org.
3. "Independent Panels Blast Regents," FairTest Examiner, Winter-Spring 2003, p. 18; articles from the FairTest Examiner are available at www.fairtest.org/k12toc.htm.
4. Joseph Pedulla et al., "Perceived Effects of State-Mandated Testing Programs on Teaching and Learning: Findings from a National Survey of Teachers," National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston College, March 2003; and Marguerite Clarke et al., "Perceived Effects of State-Mandated Testing Programs on Teaching and Learning: Findings from Interviews with Educators in Low-, Medium-, and High-Stakes States," National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston College, November 2002. Both are available at www.bc.edu/research/nbetpp.
5. Joseph Pedulla et al., "Perceived Effects of State-Mandated Testing Programs on Teaching and Learning: Findings from a National Survey of Teachers," National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston College, March 2003; and Marguerite Clarke et al., "Perceived Effects of State-Mandated Testing Programs on Teaching and Learning: Findings from Interviews with Educators in Low-, Medium-, and High-Stakes States," National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, Boston College, November 2002. Both are available at www.bc.edu/research/nbetpp.
6. "Seventy Percent of Schools to 'Fail,'" FairTest Examiner, Winter-Spring 2003, pp. 23, 27, 30, available at www.fairtest.org/k12toc.htm; and Robert L. Linn, Eva L. Baker, and Damian W. Betebenner, "Accountability Systems: Implications of Requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, UCLA, CSE Technical Report 567, July 2002, available at www.cse.ucla.edu.
7. "Seventy Percent of Schools to 'Fail,'" FairTest Examiner, Winter-Spring 2003, pp. 23, 27, 30, available at www.fairtest.org/k12toc.htm; and Robert L. Linn, Eva L. Baker, and Damian W. Betebenner, "Accountability Systems: Implications of Requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001," National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, UCLA, CSE Technical Report 567, July 2002, available at www.cse.ucla.edu.
8. Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger, "Improving School Accountability Measures," Brookings Institution, March 2001, available at http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8156.
9. "Seventy Percent of Schools to 'Fail.'" President Bush's speech from 6 May 2002 is available at www.nclb.gov/media/speeches/050602.html. See also Michael Winerip, "Even at the Bottom, the Menu Is Rich," New York Times, 2 July 2003, p. B-8.
10. "Seventy Percent of Schools to 'Fail.'" President Bush's speech from 6 May 2002 is available at www.nclb.gov/media/speeches/050602.html. See also Michael Winerip, "Even at the Bottom, the Menu Is Rich," New York Times, 2 July 2003, p. B-8.
11. "Blue Ribbon or Below Par?," NEA Today, March 2003, available at www.nea.org.
12. "Transfers and Tutoring," FairTesl Examiner, Winter-Spring 2003, pp. 24-25, available at www.fairtest.org/k12toc.htm.
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14. National Conference of State Legislatures, "Possible Legal Ramifications Regarding the No Child Left Behind Act." Memorandum, 7 July 2003, p. 4; and Helen Gao, "Most Schools in State Failing: Only One-Third Reach English, Math Coals," Los Angeles Daily News, 24 July 2003.
15. National Conference of State Legislatures, "Possible Legal Ramifications Regarding the No Child Left Behind Act." Memorandum, 7 July 2003, p. 4; and Helen Gao, "Most Schools in State Failing: Only One-Third Reach English, Math Coals," Los Angeles Daily News, 24 July 2003.
16. Ronald C. Brady, "Can Failing Schools Be Fixed?," Fordham Foundation, January 2003, available at www.edexcellence.net.The newspaper Substance has detailed the failings of Chicago's restructuring efforts for several years; see www.substancenews.com.
17. Emily Hobson, "Organizing Wins California Test Delay," FairTest Examiner, Summer 2003, p. 3, available at www.fairtest.org/k12toc.htm.
18. Lorrie A. Shepard and Mary Lee Smith, Flunking Grades: Research and Policies on Retention (Philadelphia: Falmer, 1989); and Robert Hauser and Jay Heubert, eds., High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999).
19. Lorrie A. Shepard and Mary Lee Smith, Flunking Grades: Research and Policies on Retention (Philadelphia: Falmer, 1989); and Robert Hauser and Jay Heubert, eds., High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999).
20. Mathew I. Pinzur, "Principal Targeted Low-Score Students," Miami Herald, 2 July 2003; Betsy Gotbaum, "Pushing Out At-Risk Students: An Analysis of High School Discharge Figures," Advocates for Children, 21 November 2002, available at www.advocatesforchildren.org; and Anne McGill-Franzen and Richard L. Allington, "Flunk'em or Get Them Classified: The Contamination of Primary Grade Accountability Data," Educational Researcher, January/Febraury, 1993, pp. 19-22.
21. Mathew I. Pinzur, "Principal Targeted Low-Score Students," Miami Herald, 2 July 2003; Betsy Gotbaum, "Pushing Out At-Risk Students: An Analysis of High School Discharge Figures," Advocates for Children, 21 November 2002, available at www.advocatesforchildren.org; and Anne McGill-Franzen and Richard L. Allington, "Flunk'em or Get Them Classified: The Contamination of Primary Grade Accountability Data," Educational Researcher, January/Febraury, 1993, pp. 19-22.
22. Mathew I. Pinzur, "Principal Targeted Low-Score Students," Miami Herald, 2 July 2003; Betsy Gotbaum, "Pushing Out At-Risk Students: An Analysis of High School Discharge Figures," Advocates for Children, 21 November 2002, available at www.advocatesforchildren.org; and Anne McGill-Franzen and Richard L. Allington, "Flunk'em or Get Them Classified: The Contamination of Primary Grade Accountability Data," Educational Researcher, January/Febraury, 1993, pp. 19-22.
23. William J. Mathis, "No Child Left Behind: Costs and Benefits," Phi Delta Kappan, May 2003, pp. 679-86.
24. National Conference of State Legislatures, op. cit.
25. On the Learning Record, see www.learningrecord.org.
26. Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam, "Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998, pp. 139-48.
27. See "Nebraska and Maine Assessment Models," Spring 2002, FairTest Examiner, pp. 16, 12-13, available at www.fairtest.org/k12toc.htm; and Pat Roschewski, "Nebraska STARS Line Up," Phi Delta Kappan, March 2003, pp. 517-20.
28. See "Nebraska and Maine Assessment Models," Spring 2002, FairTest Examiner, pp. 16, 12-13, available at www.fairtest.org/k12toc.htm; and Pat Roschewski, "Nebraska STARS Line Up," Phi Delta Kappan, March 2003, pp. 517-20.
29. Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education, "A Call for an Authentic State-Wide Assessment System," available at www.fairtest.org/care/accountability.html.
30. National Forum on Assessment, "Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems," 1995, available at www.fairtest.org.
31. Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust (Boston: Beacon, 2002).
32. Monty Neill, "Don't Mourn, Organize! Making Lemonade from NCLB Lemons," Rethinking Schools, Fall 2003.