No Child Left Behind and Special Ed cut

The No Child Left Behind bill should be called the Excessive Paperwork and Documentation Bill. It helps NO ONE! Cutting it would save about 88 million dollars and allow schools to do what they are there to do: teach.

Some children should be left behind.

Sleepy Shoals, you get an A for that statement. I can relate details about NCLB that would make all of us cringe. The money wasted is unbelieveable. For one example, publishers are getting wealthy over the trash being sold to help teachers with vocabulary. Earthmomma taught for 30 years. Give me a dictionary appropriate to the age level and I will teach vocabulary (included in my salary). The words will be useful ones that will help us all communicate. The overhead is ridiculous with new state, regional, and national positions being created. the requirements for progress in special ed are beyond comprehension (this from special ed teacher). I will just say the bell rang and post this. LOL

Minus two points for the lower case "t" in previous post. I will let the nit-pickers look for it!

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Originally posted by earthmomma:
Minus two points for the lower case "t" in previous post. I will let the nit-pickers look for it!

Earthmomma, if you fuss over your capitalization you at least understand that such a thing actually has purpose. This sets you well above 95% of the people who post on this blog.

If they really want to help special needs children they should provide secretaries to all the special ed teachers to lift the burden of needless paperwork from their shoulders. That way, the teachers can focus on their students, not the mountain of forms that must be filled out.

At least that would have provided jobs!

The "No Child Left Behind" program should be scrapped immediately before any more money is wasted on it.

At one time , my job was as a trainer for data communications so we could develop a staff for running the rather large and growing network we were developing. They sent me to school in Boston to learn how to teach.
The primary textbook we had was "Preparing Instructional Objectives " by Mager. Link

This book , and the course, changed forever my view of how teaching should be.
Afterwards, I noticed that most big companies actually use these methods to train employees.

I'm not going to go into the methods, as this post would go on into the night, but for anyone interested in actually teaching, especially high school, I highly recommend the book and methods.
What I recommend to replace the ridiculous "All Childs Left Behind" program we have now, is to teach our teachers this method.

Later on in my life, I taught high school math and found many of the principles of this method very effective.

Watch out. The NEA might send one of their hit squads after you for heresy.

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Originally posted by zippadeedoodah:
Watch out. The NEA might send one of their hit squads after you for heresy.

I have nothing to fear but fear itself.