File puptcrit/puptcrit.0501, message 178


From: Robert Smythe <robertsmythe-AT-mumpuppet.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] schools 2000, fewer teaching artists
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:47:52 -0500
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org


As a result of No Child Left Behind, and the desire to live up to test 
scores, we are in the process of moving our son to a private school in 
the middle of the year: he is getting sick with frustration about 
having to wait for the entire class to catch up to him before he can 
move ahead.

The new school refers to NCLB as "No Child Left Untested."


On Jan 19, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Elizabeth Freeman wrote:

>> What Monica said below is so true...Not only has "No Child Left 
>> Behind" impacting the arts, but science, social studies, music, 
>> recess etc. etc.    Actually at my urban, bilingual school ,   even 
>> my reading and math program-- that NCLB is suppose to improve--has 
>> been negatively affected by policies.    A very frustrated teacher 
>> and member of P of A.    Liz in Massachusetts
>
>>         Nowadays, it seems fewer and fewer schools are able to 
>> incorporate
>> this type of residency.  Along with No Child Left Behind (ha!), many
>> schools can afford neither the time nor the money.  The trend has been
>> towards (a) shorter residencies 1-3 days) and (b) so-called "Arts
>> Partnerships", in which an artist partners with a school, going in 
>> from time
>> to time and working on specific curriculum related arts projects. 
>> .......Monica
>> Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre
>> http://www.puppetspuppets.com
>>
>>
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