Lyndon B Johnson's Great Society Program Analysis
This is an extension of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program (Klein, 2015). Johnson’s heart was in the right place but after being tweaked so many times I think that government bureaucrats lost sight of the reason for the original act by Johnson. There was such a focus on competing with other countries that children truly got left behind. The government put so much pressure on schools for their students to perform well on testing that schools had no choice but to start teaching to the test and leave other ways of teaching lessons on the back burner. I was a representative on the school board for our school system here where we live, we had the discussion of NCLB many times. One thing that we had discussed about the NCLB is how mentally disabled students were to take the same testing as the other students, and the testing not taking into consideration that those students would never be able to perform to those
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Teachers and schools should be held accountable, but not judged by some test that is a blanket test. This act takes away the ability of teachers to actually be able to teach, they just instruct to what is on the test. Students learn at different levels; this test hurts those students that may not learn quick as the others or learn in the same way. The NCLB is an even bigger problem in areas such as Chicago, Atlanta schools with children that come from poorer families and do not get the help they need at home. I believe that it should be replaced but it needs to be replaced with something that gives teachers more freedom to teach the way they feel their students will learn best. It would be possible for school districts to be in charge of their own numbers, and send these numbers in annually showing how well their students are doing. With that said there would need to be an audit from time-to-time making sure districts are not cooking the books, and kept honest. Does it affect
Teachers and schools should be held accountable, but not judged by some test that is a blanket test. This act takes away the ability of teachers to actually be able to teach, they just instruct to what is on the test. Students learn at different levels; this test hurts those students that may not learn quick as the others or learn in the same way. The NCLB is an even bigger problem in areas such as Chicago, Atlanta schools with children that come from poorer families and do not get the help they need at home. I believe that it should be replaced but it needs to be replaced with something that gives teachers more freedom to teach the way they feel their students will learn best. It would be possible for school districts to be in charge of their own numbers, and send these numbers in annually showing how well their students are doing. With that said there would need to be an audit from time-to-time making sure districts are not cooking the books, and kept honest. Does it affect