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I actually didn't understand how NCLB incentivized failing a set percentage of students every year. Seems like it would do the opposite.

• coredog64 1y ago
  Allegedly, at the time of drafting and passage, it was understood that despite the name, the optimum number of children to leave behind was not zero. However, the optics of that were not great. The plan was to pass it as zero, and then update that value later. Here we are 20 years later and we haven't had the discussion about what the cutoff is.
• KennyBlanken 1y ago
  If all the students pass then someone is going to claim it's too easy, and thus administrators will need to make it more difficult, develop new curriculum, train teachers on it, and so on. All the while nobody learns anything except how to pass the test.
  • falcor84 1y ago
    That's a strawman argument. We don't have to change the system just because "someone is going to claim it's too easy". I personally have been claiming a lot of things about a lot of systems and the're very persistent in not listening to me, even though I'm sure it would make them better. Anyway, if someone is annoyed by their (or their kid's) test being too easy, we can just give them bonus test