No Child Left Behind applied behind bars

[deadparrot]

The Eager Street Academy is a Baltimore public school behind bars, with the most troubled student body in the city. Nonetheless, its staff has the impossible job of complying with the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Located in the Baltimore City Detention Center, the school's approximately 130 students - ages 14 to 17 - are charged as adults in some of the city's most notorious killings and other crimes.

Many of them had dropped out of school before landing in prison, and about a quarter come in reading at a second-grade level.

No Child Left Behind requires schools to give annual standardized tests to all their students, and all students must demonstrate proficiency in reading and math by 2014.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/education/bal-te.md.eager09dec09,0,209429.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I knew there was a connection between taking standardized tests and

feeling like you're in jail.

[angstlessk]

2. Fine, send them to prep schools...I am sure SOMEONE will learn SOMETHING

??? Insanity at work!

[LiberalFighter]

3. So they will get to go to another school? Outside of prison?