{"id":145,"date":"2006-03-26T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/26\/all-scientists-left-behind\/"},"modified":"2006-03-26T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T15:43:27","slug":"all-scientists-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/03\/26\/all-scientists-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"All Scientists Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orac beats me to commenting<\/a> on today’s depressing New York Times<\/cite> story about NCLB<\/a>. It seems that, faced with strict “No Child Left Behind” requirements in reading and math, some schools are shifting things around so that their low-performing students take only<\/strong> reading and math:<\/p>\n

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Rubén Jimenez, a seventh grader whose father is a construction laborer, has a schedule typical of many students at the school, with six class periods a day, not counting lunch. <\/p>\n

Rubén studies English for the first three periods, and pre-algebra and math during the fourth and fifth. His sixth period is gym.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because God knows, we wouldn’t want anybody miss gym…<\/p>\n

Now, granted, the only students affected are the lowest of the low performers, and not too likely to be future Nobel laureates in the physical sciences, but this is really a terrible message to send. It’s not just that this devalues science, it also devalues the kids affected– what this is saying is that the school doesn’t really care about them as people, or about getting them the skills they need to make a better life. All they care about is that they do well enough on the test to keep the money coming.<\/p>\n

I don’t usually go in for conspiracy theories, but the claim that the real purpose of “No Child Left Behind” is to break public education so badly that everybody will agree to discard it looks more plausible with every new story about its effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orac beats me to commenting on today’s depressing New York Times story about NCLB. It seems that, faced with strict “No Child Left Behind” requirements in reading and math, some schools are shifting things around so that their low-performing students take only reading and math: Rubén Jimenez, a seventh grader whose father is a construction… Continue reading All Scientists Left Behind<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-war_on_science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}