Bush: Test Scores Up Due to Education Law

[Rose Siding]

GLEN BURNIE, Md. - Emphasizing the softer side of his agenda, President Bush went back to school Monday, touting rising test scores as proof that his education law is working.
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"Unfortunately, President Bush still doesn't realize that No Child Left Behind was a promise, not a political slogan," said Sen. Edward Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., a key backer of the law.

The bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures has also issued a scathing rebuke of the law, calling it a coercive act that sets unreachable goals. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has tried to temper those concerns, changing enforcement of the law to give states more flexibility in how they measure student progress and teacher quality.
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"The system is working. That's what's important for people to understand," Bush said.

But the president did not mention some of the test's less flattering results. The fourth-grade reading performance was essentially flat, and in eighth grade, reading scores dropped.

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[sakabatou]

1. Test scores may be up

But actual learning is down.

[Sinistrous]

3. Scorecard: Rote Learning 1; Critical Thinking 0

I replied to your post because we are boh saying the same thing.

Sinistrous

[Flabbergasted]

5. Beyond a doubt. My thought exactly

But how do you test that?

[Tempest]

2. Test scores are not technically up

There are many states who are not following the NCLB law and have suspended testing.

Several school districts in my area are not giving out the test.

[Selteri]

4. In my area the previous mayor got his testscores up by lowering the bar..

Thankfully MAyor JAck Ford was demoted to Citizen Jack Ford.

[Tempest]

6. In Texas they increased scores by expelling low performing students

It was a big scandal in Houston.

[radfringe]

7. tomorrow's headline

Test score data skewed

[Maine-ah]

8. even my 12 year old brother-in-law

know's better. Last year his class was going through testing and he said to me "damn that no child left behind act". I nearly fell out of my chair when he said that.