So You Want To Teach?

Everyone’s talking about it. It seems that everyone has been talking about it for nearly seven years now. So I thought it would be kind of interesting to see what various bloggers are saying about the “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001 (NCLB). My personal opinion is that the law has good intentions, but they go about it entirely the wrong way.

My preference would be for children to be educated by their own families rather than the state, but California courts seem interested in doing their part to see that it doesn’t happen. Besides, too many homes have two incomes to make it reasonable for everyone (even if one income merely is there to support child care, an extra car, and lavish living).

Oops, sorry about that. That’s all of the political commentary I have for now. I’ll start with some interesting reading.

• Here’s an interesting and very short article from February about the larger social implications of the legislation. No Child Left Behind Is Leaving Designers Behind.
• I found a couple of different takes on this NY Times article (NCBLA says one thing, Educating Alice says another)
• Here are some editorial cartoons.
• And of course, there is the beloved No Dentist Left Behind (also, the Football analogy and the basketball version)

Obviously, this is a topic of great interest still. In fact, here is a list of all of the articles (according to Google Blog Search) written in the last 24 hours that mentioned NCLB. It’s crazy.

1. A list of Bush and co. accomplishments, To help start the Bush Library
2. Republicans accused of buying votes for their ward convention
3. America at Odds: Fiscal Federalism and Drinking Age
4. This is a quote from my last blog entry: “Please tell me why they …
5. Educating for Humanity
6. Ahhhh SETC…
7. Open Question: Did you have any frickin’ idea that…..?
8. Virginia may opt out of failed No Child Left Behind
9. About government
10. SCAN Reports: “We Don’t Need Saving!”
11. Education’s Diseased Culture; the American Toady Farm
12. Art Makes All Things Better: Tolerance.org
13. Finnish Finishing Schools
14. So. . . who should be in charge of a child’s education?]
15. 03/08/08
16. Obama on Education, NCLB
17. Education’s Diseased Culture; the American Toady Farm
18. A Public School Mantra for All Students
19. Zenos, two weeks on
20. Educational Change
21. Hillary and the Invisible Women
22. DFL SD 62 convention
23. current obsessions
24. EDUCATING FOR HUMANITY
25. The Library
26. The big “discussion” (read as borderline fistfights between …
27. College Student Disabilities: Impact of “No Child Left Behind”
28. No Child left behind
29. Re: Supermarket or Antidote?
30. Now That The Primary Is Over, Strickland Should Concentrate On …
31. Considering Barack Obama, part 3
32. to the governator
33. Back in the US of A and stomping down some roots
34. Crying “Monster!”
35. Should Parents be Licensed?
36. Campbell’s Law
37. No Child Left Behind
38. Washington Lawyers
39. CCSD Teacher Coaches: Another Failed Idea
40. Hillary won Texas!
41. The Economy
42. NCLB 2.0: The Fix Is In. Or Not.
43. Liberal Fascism
44. Stateswomen (Amy)
45. Teaching Boys and Girls Separately
46. Schools need pact oversight
47. Asperger Hell
48. Republicans Live in a Parallel Universe
49. ARE YOU SERIOUS, MINISTER?
50. Homeschooling and why it may not be as great as it sounds
51. Edcuation and the Election
52. movie: Lost in China
53. Reading and Math Educators Tackle Education Challenges
54. Does the Research Su