[DOWNLOAD] "Finding Their Place in the Community: Urban Education Outside the Classroom." by Childhood Education ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Finding Their Place in the Community: Urban Education Outside the Classroom.
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 189 KB
Description
In the spring of 2005, the Bush administration announced that guidelines for following the mandates of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) had been made less restrictive. More of this "loosening" will follow, albeit quietly, lest the public discover the delusional qualities that went into the original version of the bill. Nevertheless, NCLB has had a huge impact on the public education endeavor in the United States, solidifying the ascendancy of the nation's "standards and testing" movement. This movement has placed a special burden on early childhood education--for it is widely believed that academic careers are made or broken in the early grades, when a child either learns to read well, poorly, or not at all. Accompanying this burden has been a barrage of testing; millions of teacher-hours spent mapping the curriculum (or aligning it to teach what standardized tests measure), and an exponential growth in the number of hours spent examining, then operationalizing, a huge range of remediation packages in both traditional and online formats. Teachers, especially those who teach young children, are being pressed to work much harder in the interest of producing higher test scores. The assumption that reading and language arts are central to success in the other school subjects has led to a dramatic re-ordering of instructional time--so much so that art, music, and social science are often banished from primary grades.