Re:H.R.899 – To terminate the Department of Education
by nosuchthing on Thursday February 09, 2017 @02:34PM
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In theory yes, but in practice the teachers are incentived above all else to cater everyday they can to push the standardized testing material into all of the students leaving very very little room for creative teaching.
Yes, they do (unless states took it away from local districts, but that's not a direct consequence of NCLB or the subsequent federal law, even if it is in some way motivated by it.)
NCLB created, and subsequent federal law has modified, requirements for testing and accountability based on that testing, but left to the states most of the actual standards and content of the testing (and did virtually nothing to direct curriculum.)