Educational Psychology Term Paper

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Educational Psychology Abstract: Teaching Left Behind

The article "Teaching Left Behind" by Edward J. McElroy, President of the American Federation of Teachers, comes from the 'Teacher to Teacher' section of the www.TeachingK-8.com Website for May of 2005. The main subject of the article is the Federal No Child Left Behind Act. While originally intended to help many children succeed, the implication may be that the Act is also hurting teachers with some of the provisions that it has. The intentions of the Act are good, as it was originally designed to raise standards and to especially help children that were disadvantaged in some way to catch up with their peers and remain there.
Some of the ways that the Act intended to do this was to ensure that all classrooms had good quality teachers, and that both students and schools received help to turn around problems that they were facing. However, there have been upsetting consequences of this Act, such as assessment problems for students, and putting too much emphasis on one particular test over the other work that the student has….....

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