Explain some of the unintended consequences of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act passed in the U.S. in 2001.
What will be an ideal response?
1. The legislation emphasized testing as a method of accountability for student educational achievement. In turn, standardized and high-stakes testing became widespread.
2. Students spend substantial amounts of time preparing for and taking standardized high-risk tests instead of learning other material (i.e., it is time consuming).
3. Teachers feel pressured to “teach to the test” instead of using other teaching methods because their students’ performance on the tests can be used as the main way they are evaluated in their jobs (i.e., it overly dictates teachers’ daily work and uses unfair standards to evaluate their abilities).
4. Students are often put into special education courses, encouraged to transfer, or in the most drastic examples encouraged to drop out in order to bring up a low performing school’s test scores.
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