Standards-Based Education & NCLB

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Effects on Students

Tests Don't Focus On/Encourage Special Abilities Like Art, Music, etc

Test-taking Anxiety/Pressure to do Well

Parents

Given More Choice on Where Child Goes to School Based on Standards

School Vouchers

Partners

Teacher Quality

Provide Additional Professional Development Opportunities

Supposed to Measure Teacher Quality

Impact on Teachers

Designed to Improve Teacher Quality

Limits Curriculum

"Teaching to the Test"

Limits Teacher Creativity and Flexibility

Are standards well written?

Provide direction, but not Rigid

School library can help achieve AYP

LMS Provides Mterials to Raise Zcores

Non Fiction Reading Materials, Math Aids, etc

Support of Principal

Subgroups

Is Relying Soley on Standards the Right Approach?

Deserve a Good Education

Accountability

Measures only One Item

No Measure of Progress Toward that Score

Achieving a Certain score

Adequate Yearly Progress Benchmarks

Identify Schools in Need

At What Educational Cost?

Economic Factors

Schools That Need the Most Aid Receive the Least Based on Scores

Or Are students now Better Test Takers?

Is Education Better?

Controversial

Transformation

Standardized Tests

Fairness of Tests

Academically Gifted not Challenged

Minority Students/Students with Learning Disabilities at Disadvantage

Input to Output based

Reports

Annual Performance and Accountability Reports

A Nation at Risk, 1983