Title: Interview 1
Summary: An interview with Debbie Slater, a teacher from Anaheim, California.
Topic: Should President Obama reform the No Child Left Behind law?
Category: Citizen: Commentator; Interview
What is it? An interview with a teacher in the Orange Unified School District (located in Southern California)
Publication Information: N/A
Author: Interviewee is called Debbie Slater.
Location: N/A
Accessed: 3/2/09
Support:
Debbie Slater is an elementary school teacher from Orange County, California. She believes that there are many problems with No Child Left Behind and that it cannot succeed as it is currently written.
Audience and Agenda:
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Usefulness:
It was very useful talking to a teacher about the No Child Left Behind act. She offered some very insightful opinions as to why the act cannot work. She also expressed her opinion that one of the best ways to improve children’s learning is to have a smaller teacher-to-student ratio. She also explains that every child is not the same, and it isn’t fair to test them as if they were.
Works Cited: N/A
Filed under: Assignments for Gateway II, Source Notes Tagged: | Assignments, Citizen Sources, Gateway, Gateway II, Interview, No Child Left Behind, politics, Source Notes
