The document discusses No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and its impact on education. It begins with some pre-assessment questions to gauge understanding of NCLB. It then provides some key facts about NCLB, including its history, requirements for adequate yearly progress, benchmarks for teacher qualifications, and penalties for schools that do not meet standards. The document expresses some opinions that NCLB will likely conflict with special education law and may lead to the disappearance of public schools by 2014. It encourages reflection on NCLB's effects and allows for additional discussion through a blog.

1. NCLB: The Trojan Horse of
the 21st Century
Opinions and Thoughts of Robert C.
McCracken

2. NCLB and Teaching
First here are some mandatory
lessons about teaching!

3. NCLB
 Some Facts
 Some Opinion
 Some Reflective Activities

4. Pre-Assessment
 What do the letters NCLB stand for in
respect to a federal program?
 Is NCLB a new program?
 Who is in control of education, states
or the federal government?
 NCLB has the ability to declare a
school as a failed school? True or
False

5. Pre- Assessment
 What is the term and measurement of
a school success under NCLB?
 What are penalties if a school does
not meet the expectations of NCLB?
 Can a teacher lose their job as a
result of NCLB expectations?
 Can the state take over a school that
does not meet the expectations of
NCLB?

6. Some Facts
 History: Title I, Chapter I and ESEA
 Trojan Horse Example
 First Benchmark: Highly Qualified
Paraprofessionals
 Next Benchmark: First set of data
regarding schools failing to make
Adequate Yearly Progress

7. Some Facts
 State Accountablility: AKA as
“Workbooks”
 Virginia’s “Workbook”; timeline issues
 First Set of Data release: Virginia’s
Issues
 Data Sets: Disaggregated Data
 What does that mean?

8. Required Pass Rates (percent)
 Language Arts/Reading Passrates
60.7 61.0 61.0 65.0 69.0 73.0 77.0
81.0 85.0 89.0 93.0 97.0 100%
 Mathematics
58.4 59.0 59.0 63.0 67.0 71.0 75.0
79.0 83.0 87.0 91.0 95.0 100%

9. Some Facts
 In Virginia: SOL test results
 Beginning in Grades 3, 5, 8 and End of
Course (English and Math - Guess what else use to be included?)
 At the end of 2005-06; 4 and 7
 Addition of mathematics to middle school
grades
 Science in middle school and high school
 Attendance
 Graduation Rates

10. Some Facts
 the Nation: All the same subgroups
 In Implementation Goals of NCLB
 100% All Subgroups by 2014
 Virginia first goals: 58 Math and 61
English
 Failure of ANY subgroup at any time
MEANS “Failure to Make Adequate Yearly
Progress (AYP)”

11. Some Facts
 Highly Qualified Professional
Personnel
 Who are they?
 Provisional Licensure
 Career Switchers
 Experienced Teachers
 Staff Development: High Quality Staff
Development

12. Some Facts
 School Improvement
 AYP Issues
 Accreditation Issues
 VaDOE Requirements and Funding

13. Some Facts
 Penalities: Failure to make AYP
 “Title I” and Non-Title I
 Regardless; Public label is applied
 Supplemental Services
 School Choice
 Removal of Staff “responsible for the
failure”
 Reconstitution of the school

14. Some Facts
 Reopen as a Charter School
 Virginia’s Requirement for Charter
Schools
 Virginia’s Changing Issues and
Requirements
 Charter Schools in other states

15. Some Facts
More Facts from REAL People

16. Some Opinion
 Provisional Licenses no longer exist
 Local Licenses no longer exist
 Relationship to Special Education i.e.
“Highly Qualified”

17. Some Opinion
 Special education and NCLB will conflict in
court
 IF adjustments are not made, public
schools as currently defined and as we
know them, will begin to disappear in 2014
 What is the intent of the political agenda to
implement Charter Schools and or
Vouchers?
 What is the outcome of implementation of
Charter Schools and Vouchers?

18. NCLB and Testing
TESTING????

19. Some Reflection
 List five facts about NCLB that you were not
aware of prior to the presentation (if you
knew it all, just list five facts)
 List five facts that will affect your career by
the year 2014
 List five questions you would ask as a
School Board Member when a Charter
School application is presented to you.

20. Some Reflection
 List five arguments you would present to
defeat a Charter School application that will
be competing for students in your school.
 List five arguments you would present to
support a Charter School application that
will be competing for students in your
current school.

21. Additional Discussion
 If you would like to have discussion
about NCLB, a blog has been
established for you to share your
thoughts.
 http://runclb.blogspot.com/

22. Questions / Comments
 Questions
 Comments
 Thoughts
 Action Plans?