Many countries have been following in the footsteps of the United States. What lessons should they bear in mind?
Julie, is training the only thing needed to implement the no child left behind policy? How about class sizes? I also wonder about the impact of the no child left behind policy on the quality of students in college? Do they succeed or do they drop out? As far as I am concerned 50 % of U.S. students drop out of their colleges.
Now, Colombia follows in the foot steps of the United States in terms of education. I believe that they shouldn't have adopted such a policy here.
The biggest flaw with NCLB was that it left teachers and schools responsible if students did nt learn, but failed to take into account several confounding variables.
For example, if parents are engaged with their child's learning, the child is much more likely to learn than when the parents are "hands off." But NCLB punishes schools if parents are not engaged.
Michael, thank you for answering, The interesting thing is that Colombia followed the U.S. route using the No-Child Left-Behind policy and they have done exactly what the US did in the Bush era. Schools are now paying for it. There is one little piece of data that I observed in the US though. The government punishes schools that yield bad results, but schools in turn manipulate results by delaying the graduation of academically struggling students. In this way they get better results but indeed school administrators victimize kids who struggle academically,
In Colombia, to play the game the government has started, some institutions hand pick academically strong students and drive away those who are weak. This strategy has yielded better academic results but kids who are academically weak end up paying the consequences.
In the end,the data in Colombia leads me to believe that kids are victims of both governmental inefficiency and the lack of serious research studies in primary and secondary schools,
I strongly believe that there is a disconnection between schools and universities both in the US and in Colombia, W need to work cooperatively ignoring what governments dictate with their political agendas,
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