http://www.metafilter.com/tags/leavenochildbehind Posts tagged with 'leavenochildbehind' at MetaFilter. Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:34:31 -0800 Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:34:31 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/29980/Teaching%2Dthe%2DTest%2Din%2DTexas <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/national/03HOUS.html?hp">Teaching the Test</a> <br><i>As a student at Jefferson Davis High here, Rosa Arevelo seemed the "Texas miracle" in motion. After years of classroom drills, she passed the high school exam required for graduation on her first try. A program of college prep courses earned her the designation "Texas scholar." At the University of Houston, though, Ms. Arevelo discovered the distance between what Texas public schools called success and what she needed to know. Trained to write five-paragraph "persuasive essays" for the state exam, she was stumped by her first writing assignment. She failed the college entrance exam in math twice, even with a year of remedial algebra. At 19, she gave up and went to trade school.</i><br><br> This doesn't look good for our new, unfunded, "Leave No Child Behind" education bill. Smells like another bait and switch to me. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29980 Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:34:31 -0800 education highschool leavenochildbehind news policy testing tests nofundy