Title: No Child Left Behind should be re-examined
Summary: No Child Left Behind should be reformed because it does nothing to close achievement gaps and punishes schools that test poorly.
Topic: Should President Obama reform the No Child Left Behind law?
Category: Journalistic
What is it? Online text from an article in Progressive Magazine.
Publication Information: Progressive Magazine. 1/29/09. progressive.org
Author: Annette Fuentes
Location: http://www.progressive.org/mag/mpfuentes012909.html
Accessed: 1/30/09
Support: President Obama is quoted directly and is asked to reform the law. President George W. Bush is mentioned as the creator of the law. Fair Test’s Robert Schaeffer is quoted directly, speaking about the achievement gap.
Audience and Agenda:
Progressive.org is the online form of Progressive Magazine. Progressive Magazine promotes “peace and social justice.”
Usefulness:
This article is heavily biased against the No Child Left Behind law, asking that it not be funded by the Obama administration. It would be more useful if it speculated on what could be done in lieu of No Child Left Behind, and gave more specific examples. It calls for change, but gives no concrete reasons.
Works cited:
http://www.progressive.org/
Filed under: Assignments for Gateway II, Source Notes Tagged: | Assignments, Gateway, Gateway II, Journalistic, No Child Left Behind, politics, Source Notes
