Columnist: There’s a better way to handle special needs under ‘No Child’ law
October 12th, 2007Congress should revise the No Child Left Behind Act to allow for the individual progress of students with disabilities, writes Linda Perlstein in the Washington Post. She says NCLB sets unreasonable standards for students with developmental disabilities, and that preparing for standardized tests amounts to a waste of time for such students.
… as long as students are judged only on grade-level tests, no matter their needs, and as long as the education they get the rest of the year hews to that goal, they will lose out.
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