NCLB reformed to improve success

The blog was titled "How to Overhaul NCLB to Help Schools Improve: Implement Common Elements of Success." This article focused on NCLB's fallbacks and its lack of effective implementation in the classroom. It's obvious that students with low SES are falling behind and it's those students who need more of the attention. They need the extra attention because they might not have that support system at home in order to effectively get schoolwork done. The parents of low SES children don't necessarily help out at home and it's those students who need extra attention. The article gave five elements to implement in the school so teachers can teach lifelong knowledge and not test knowledge. Leadership, instructional improvement, curriculum, climate, and parent and community involvement and support all outline the elements that are needed to be implemented into the classroom to effectively achieve true success of the students. Students expect to learn for the test and the students slack as a result because they cram right before the tests in which students might forget information on that test. On standardized tests, there's no real outline to study so students are not as likely to succeed on standardized tests if they normally cram because standardized tests cover too wide of a range of topics to be able to cram and know most of the questions. The five elements seem to be effective because leadership is a big element that students don't necessarily experience. Many teachers solely lecture their students and they don't talk about the life aspect of knowledge or the fun of knowledge and students don't feel supported in return. Students need effective community support because people are more likely to do well in school if they feel the support not only of their family, but of the community. Community support goes a long way and I will give an example using sports. The fans make up the community of support. The team who receives a big fan base are more likely to succeed if they are receiving that community support because that heightens the team's emotions which each player feels. Having the community support gives a mental edge to the team with the greater amount of support. The climate element is an essential element because this sets the mentality for the students. Climate is basically setting high expectations for the students to succeed. If the students don't have high expectations in the classroom, they are likely to slack and in turn do poorly in school. All five elements need to be collaborative to achieve the 100 percent proficiency goal in 2014. While tests should not be stressed, it should be the lifelong knowledge aspect that students need to learn. Having expectations  in lifelong knowledge allows students to achieve the should-be goal of NCLB.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-m-ratner/how-to-overhaul-nclb-to-h_b_839130.html