NCLB Good and Bad

I think that NCLB does have some good things about it. Although up until the last class I did not believe that there was anything good about it, I am trying to make some sense out of the situation. One of the beneficial things that I found about NCLB is the quality of the teachers. I think that this is something that is very beneficial to students. I think that it is important to have teachers that are highly qualified in their area of content simply so you do not have any person with a degree running a classroom. This part of the act makes it a little more challenging for someone to become a teacher which I believe will impose a more challenging atmosphere in the classroom.

The next part I would have to say that I found interesting is the standardized testing. I can’t say that I complete disagree with testing students to make sure that they are learning what they are being taught. However what I do disagree with is how the tests are created and administered. The tests that are being taken currently by students are way to standardized, the test should be created by the teachers doing the teaching, and what says that they tests have to be given in this completely secure format. If tests were more relaxed and didn’t place so much stress on students maybe test scores would improve. Although it was hard for me to do, I did manage to find some good in NCLB, but overall I think that there are many revisions that need to be made.