![]() ![]() ![]() No progress was made to move the bill forward after August 2007. Our country obviously needed a longer time table before putting new testing standards into effect.Ĭurrently, there is a bill, S.2001 All Students Can Achieve Act, which may offer schools the funding for further development. ![]() Unfortunately, the NCLB failed to produce the resources to enable schools to meet higher standards. ![]() The goal of the No Child Left Behind Act was to reauthorize the commitment to public education by creating a system of accountability. Since Lyndon Johnson passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, there has been federal funding allotted to our public schools. But what is more shocking to me is to find the same inefficiency and mismanagement in my own country.īut I don’t believe there is one part of government, institutional organization or group to blame. What is happening to our education system?Īs a recent returning Peace Corps Volunteer, I saw the results of the symptomatic problems in Philippines education system first hand. We have the resources, the funders and the connections as a wealthy nation, yet 70% of eighth graders in America can’t read at an 8 th grade level and most won’t catch up, according to the National Assessment for Educational Progress 2007. ![]()
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