NCLB Meets School Realities.NCLB NCLB No Child Left Behind (US education initiative) Meets School Realities by Gail Sunderman, James Kim This article is about the CNET editor. For the Korean guitarist, see Kim Se Hwang. For the Korean-American physician, see Jim Kim. James Kim (August 9, 1971 – December 3/4, 2006) was an American television personality and technology analyst for the former and Gary Orfield, Corwin Press, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 2005, 148 pp. with index, $29.95 softcover The No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 of 200l, which most refer to as NCLB, has been controversial from its inception. Its supporters believe NCLB will lead to a transformation of education. Its critics believe it to be a scheme to destroy public education. In their new book, NCLB Meets School Realities, author Gail Sunderman, a research associate at Harvard University, James S. Kim, an assistant professor at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Irvine, and Gary Orfield, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is a graduate school at Harvard University, and is one of the top schools of education in the United States. It offers six doctoral concentrations and thirteen masters programs. , use both qualitative and quantitative data. They interviewed various federal and state officials who were involved with formulating NCLB and made site visits to 11 school districts in six states. Supporters of NCLB praise the law's requirements as accountability, not control, while opponents point out that requiring specific educational outcomes with high stakes attached is an important form of control. The authors demonstrate that test-driven accountability causes most schools to be pushed into teaching about subjects to be tested. In addition, the adequate yearly progress Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically. requirement, they claim, "undercuts the capacity of educators to make needed changes." It also leads to a strange situation whereby acquiring achievement levels in one state is a success, but in another state, schools are "punished" for attaining the same levels of achievement. Reviewed by William J. Leary, professor of education, Lynn University, Boca Raton, Fla. |
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