NCLB is a wonderful act!!. I am Pre-K teacher teaching at-risk 4-year olds. Inclusion gives children the opportunity to interact with other students. I believe that inclusion provides better social skills for child with special needs. Inclusion also gives typical children the opportunity to understand the differences of children with special needs. If typical children understand children with special needs there is a less likely chance that they will make fun of them. But if we keep all of our special needs children if a self-contained room then what good is that doing anyone. However, I do feel that some children with more severe special needs do need to be in the self-contained classroom. And yes the curriculum in college has changed a slight bit, but its better for everyone in the long run.

I do believe that the NCLB is helping students to graduate with more honors and more scholarships. I have heard of many school systems that has increased their graduated rate, college attendance rate, and the amount of scholarships received.

It is destroying educating by forcing schools to teach a limited curriculum to pass a test. The research that identified the problem “A nation at risk” was politically motivated. The fine folks at Sandia National Labs looked at research on education and found that things are just fine. The Feds did not like the report and never released it, so the authors got it out in a journal.

NCLB stresses only one kind of learning, and the result is that children in economically poor areas are graduating at lower and lower rates because of high stakes tests. This disproportionately affects Hispanic Americans and African Americans.