Blog: FCAR Speakout

It can be a frustrating proposition to explain how high stakes testing harms our children and their schools.  Sometimes a well-written analogy or witty parody is just what it takes to get the point across.

110th Congress Passes No President Left Behind Act

By Ion Zwitter, Avant News Editor
Washington, D.C., February 15, 2007
 

No Patient Left Uncured
By Jerry Jesness

No State Left Behind: a Modest Proposal

Now here's a novel idea: accountability for politicians!

No Flower Left Behind

By Marion Brady

The Blueberry Story

A business leader learns his lesson.
By Jamie Robert Vollmer

Education Week

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2002/03/06/25vollmer.h21.html

The Best Dentist & Forget the Children - My Dentist Now Gets A Top Rating
by John Taylor, Superintendent of Schools,
Lancaster School District, South Carolina
http://teachers.net/gazette/DEC02/marshall.html

No Child Left Behind- The Basketball Version

No Child Left Behind: the football version

http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/007439.html

The Nutrition Crusade

By Ann Cameron

A dead-on skewering of the standards/accountability/testing movement.

No Child Left Behind/No Public School Left Standing

By Peter Campbell, Montclair State University

This satire in Flash by Peter Campbell features a series of memos over
the course of the academic year from a principal to the teaching staff at an elementary school as the school prepares for the state tests.

http://netdrive.montclair.edu/~campbellp/NCLB_memo.html

Get in Line for "No Cow Left Behind"

By Kenneth Remsen

"I was thinking about the problem of falling milk prices and wondering why testing cows wouldn't be effective in bringing up prices since testing students is going to bring up test scores."
 

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