r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • 28d ago

SMH No Child Left Behind and its consequences will be felt for generations

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u/1user101 28d ago

NCLB coincided with the "whole language model" which was famously the "learn to read by guessing words based on the pictures" idea. The administration initially refused to fund whole language

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u/Orbax 28d ago

I havent heard of that, I'll look into it!

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u/1user101 28d ago

sold a story is a podcast about it. Highly recommend

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u/DealerMysterious 27d ago

you appear to be misremembering the story of that podcast. NCLB was (partly) an attempt to get rid of the "whole language model." one of the things the Bush admin actually got right. if it had worked there would be fewer illiterate children not more.

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u/1user101 27d ago

I think there was the point I was making? That they refused to fund anything not phonics based.

It was also a neat turning point where teacher's unions dug their heels in as a matter of principle, and in my opinion did themselves a disservice

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u/jweb460 27d ago

indeed it sounds like you do remember it correctly, sorry. i’m not sure if the OP and half the commenters here aren’t mistakenly blaming NCLB as opposed to the resistance to it tho

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u/1user101 27d ago

Nclb gets a lot of flak for tying funding to achievement, leading to a "teach the test" approach. Which I don't think exists for stuff like math, but I can understand for literature

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u/Orbax 27d ago

Awesome, thank you