NCLB
No Child Left Behind Act
Under this educational act, high stakes testing became the law of the land. If you wonder why ur baby gets tested damn near 80 times a school year, it’s directly linked to NCLB.
But why? Follow the money.
Big business testing companies get paid out the wazoo for standardized testing.
“The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with more than $7.3 trillion in annual revenue, released its “2013 CEO Growth Agenda” and included a section on education reform. It has been involved for years in fostering education policy that its members believe will help grow
businesses, helping to push a corporate-based reform agenda that includes high-stakes standardized tests and school choice.”
They literally take authentic learning experiences from children, test them to death, and when they don’t perform adequately, they use that to justify taking money and resources away from public schools where MOST blk kids are to give to rich white private schools—who btw don’t have to do all of that unnecessary testing and are going on camping trips.
B-b-b we conservative...really?!
Let’s talk about conservative cuts to over hundreds of other programs that have been PROVEN to help blk impoverished communities next.
Big Business Going to Bat for NCLB