Good Article on No Child Left Behind

The Pew Research Center for the People and the People and the Press (2007, June 13) No
Left Behind Gets Mixed Grades. Retrieved November 3, 2008, from
http://people-press.org/report/337/no-child-left-behind-gets-mixed-grades
Annotation: This article outlines the different opinions of parents of different racial and ethnic groups on NCLB and its overall outcomes. These groups of parents were also broken down by level of education, political party affiliation, and even weather or not their kids attended public or private school, as well. Although they found some good aspects to the NCLB legislation, such as students getting more individual attention, as well as greater accountability for the allocation of funds, the overall coconscious was that, although schools have improved what, it has not been as significant as expected, or as widespread as expected. And that precisely was what many of the parents thought was wrong with NCLB; the fact that there is no “one size fits all”. About 30% of the parents agreed that there was too much testing being conducted on their
children, while about 5% felt that brighter, more gifted, students were being ignored. Among college graduates, the main thought was that the fundamental flaw of the legislation is that it overemphasizes the importance of testing.
I think that this study does a great job of finding out what people think of this controversial law. It gives a broad range of ideas and findings sampled from different people in different social situations. Overall, the percentages are used well in mapping out the data being analyzed.