I've heard a lot about nclb but not being in the US don't get to see it first hand. Is it like our new national standards;
1/ set extremely low goals.
2/ tell parents who are worried about their child to 'relax your child is meeting the standard'
3/ apply the standards totally inconsistently and randomly so they don't agree with Standardised performance tests. Eg. Assess a child on one piece of writing for the whole year and declare them below standard when they test the 95th percentile in nationwide achievement tests.
4/ have no moderation of results.
5/release these dodgy results to the press so schools have incentives to ignore the high achieving kids.
6/sit back and say 'aren't we doing wonderful things for equality, the bottom marks are up and the top marks down'.
If so i think we got the idea from you.
