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NEA: Test Scores Improving in Spite of NCLB
Reg Weaver, NEA president, dismissed NCLB's role in any achievement gains demonstrated in the study. Weaver issued the following statement Tuesday in response to the report: "The report seems to confirm that despite six years of being saddled with the fundamentally flawed and overly prescriptive federal No Child Left Behind law, educators, school administrators and local school districts are making a difference in increasing student achievement.
"Imagine what would happen to student test scores if educators and local school districts didn't have to teach in the test, label and punish regime established under NCLB. Think for a second about what would happen if the law didn't force educators to view students as standardized test scores.
"The American public is ready for a new era in K-12 education, one that prepares all students for success with 21st century skills and the critical knowledge to succeed in our changing world, and gives educators the freedom to teach every child."
Jack Jennings, president and chief executive officer of CEP, indicated that while no causal relationship can be established, NCLB has so vastly expanded the amount of testing conducted on students that it
The complete 164-page CEP report can be downloaded in PDF format here.
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