How The “No Child Left Behind” Act Failed on Every Level | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Go to http://functionofbeauty.com/casket to get 20% off your first order when you subscribe. Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. In the early 2000s, something seemed abundantly clear in the United States; the country was falling behind the rest of the world in education. With the academics dropping and, coincidentally, the military enrollment, the government decided it was time to come up with a plan. So, the No Child Left Behind Act was brought into existence. At first, everyone seemed hopeful that the new plan in American education would make a difference—and it did. But, not the kind the United States was searching for. Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/9nigk Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Jess Hubbert This episode was edited and mixed by: @GThomasCraig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Standardized testing. I feel like I'm not overstepping when I say it's become the bane of nearly everyone's existence.
0:16.4	From teachers to students, standardized tests seem to cause nothing but headaches.
0:22.1	And it seems like it shouldn't be an issue.
0:24.4	I mean, it's just a couple days out of the year.
0:26.9	All you have to do is sit down for hours on end
0:29.5	in complete silence, take a test focusing solely
0:32.3	on math and reading comprehension and answer
0:34.7	ridiculous questions. The problem is it isn't just impacting a couple of days a
0:40.0	year it's actually impacting all of it. Every day of school is carefully designed to teach students
0:46.3	just how to pass that test. Teach to the test has become a common expression and while days on end are wasted focusing solely on practice exams or
0:55.8	you know screening kids that did a math problem just a little differently than the way
0:59.8	they were taught everything else seems to be falling by the wayside.
1:04.5	This is the educational world built by no child left behind, focusing on math and reading
1:09.5	comprehension and not much else.
1:12.1	In 2002, American teachers and students alike were thrust into a new normal.
1:17.6	Where subjects like history and social studies were pushed to the side to ensure that the United States could catch up with the
1:23.7	rest of the world on two other subjects deemed more important.
1:28.0	School became less about teaching students how to think through their lessons carefully
1:31.8	and critically and swiftly morphed into teaching students
1:34.8	how to simply pass a test.
1:37.5	And News Flash, your teachers hated it too.
1:40.4	Just like you probably hated sitting through those boring practice tests, they also hated giving them.
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