I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

Katie
Eric
Ashley
Chris
Christie
Dan
Michael
Tyler
Hilary
and Hilary again

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As this semester, and thus this journal, come to a close, I’m finding that the whole experience wasn’t as painful as I thought it was going to be.  I’m not very tech-savvy, so having to do such an assignment, with RSS feeds, Google Reader, and a blog site that wasn’t LiveJournal, was very daunting at [...]

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For the most part I have focused this journal on No Child Left Behind’s impact in Michigan, but I found this article/blog post through my RSS reader and could not help but post it here.
Alyson Beahm, an elementary teacher in San Francisco, wrote in to the San Francisco Chronicle describing how NCLB has hampered her [...]

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Apparently there is a major issue surrounding how states judge whether a student has achieved the proper scores to graduate high school. Under No Child Left Behind, the states can customize their own passing standards and then report the numbers of students they graduate every year. Members of Congress feel that this leads [...]

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I feel like a broken record, reporting over and over again about failing schools in Detroit. But this time, the article I found in the Detroit News found that nearly half of the 1,149 schools throughout the state of Michigan have failed to meet their Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) goals. While these results [...]

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By now it should seem painfully obvious that a student’s performance in school is the result of many factors, environmental as well as physical and mental.  However, supporters of No Child Left Behind incorrectly assume that if they can change the way schools function and assess their students, test scores and proficiency will rise.  And that’s [...]

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Liam Julian wrote in his article, “Michigan’s Tests Leave Children Behind,” from the Detroit News, that Michigan’s testing standards are not on par with the rest of the nation, and that they are not consistent throughout the grade levels.  This leads to a “proficiency gap,” where parents think their children are doing well in school [...]

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Yep, you read that right.  No Child Left behind is getting revamped to include more common sense, to help out special education students and those students who are learning English.  According to Michael Petrilli, an expert on NCLB,
“The No Child Left Behind law was not well designed for the two groups of students.  They are [...]

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Rather than traveling to Lansing to take part in the MCTE conference like some of my classmates, I chose to go to James Shapiro’s lecture on Shakespeare and then Grand Valley’s performance of Cymbeline. I had read a chapter of Shapiro’s book, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599 for another class, [...]

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As of fall 2007, a total of six schools in Macomb County, north of Detroit, have failed to progress academically under No Child Left Behind guidelines. According to the Macomb Daily article, Clintondale Middle School, received the lowest possible ranking, a D-, for the second year in a row.
At Clintondale, the middle [...]

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