Question : How do you feel about No Child Left Behind and the increasing emphasis on test scores to evaluate students and teachers? Do you agree with the idea of balanced accountability advocated in...

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No Child left behind:
This act which was passed was actually made with a good intention and vision in mind where it was thought that no child would be left without education irrespective of their socio economic strata. This act was passed so as to give the lesser privileged children the exposure to education. But later down the years it was seen that there was a lot of dilution and non-adherence issues in taking this NCLB policy ahead. The increasing emphasis on evaluating students and test scores do not always give the right reflective evaluation as the same focused more on reading scores and math....