More creative lessons likely with waivers, they say
It didn't matter whether they worked at a small city elementary school or a large, suburban middle school.
Educators said Friday that President Obama's decision to lift the increasingly rigorous targets of the No Child Left Behind law would mean less pressure and a greater freedom to be creative in their classes.
But, they also said they wouldn't want to undo what the law seems to have ingrained in the current generation of educators: the idea that even struggling students should be expected to succeed.
At a White House news conference, Obama announced that he was taking the unusual step of bypassing Congress to effectively rewrite the nine-year-old law that set the goal of having all children proficient in math and reading by 2014. His plan would allow states to apply for waivers from the law's targets.
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It lifts stress which means no accountability for teachers.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, 9:15. (A retired teacher) And no accountability for students, it appears. NCLB needs some revamping, but somewhere there has to be accountability.
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