The chair of CTA’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act Workgroup and CTA Board Member Pixie Hayward-Schickele recently testified before the Aspen Institute’s Commission on No Child Left Behind. This is a bipartisan group charged with issuing recommendations for changes to NCLB next year when the law comes up for reauthorization. 

 

“The current testing system is exhausting and demoralizing and doesn’t give coherence for improvement,” said Schickele. “For very young children, the testing is hard and harsh, and not in line with what we’re teaching them.” She called NCLB a failed attempt at a “silver bullet” quick fix that doesn’t improve achievement, but instead iproves the system for cutting students.

 

Read her entire testimony at  www.nea.org/esea/nclbcommtestimony.html