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Re: [Phys-l] STUDY SUGGESTS NO CHILD LAW MAY BE DUMBING DOWNSTUDENTS



The cuts you mention were well under way before NCLB. I am also dismayed by the cuts, but hardly see them as a reason for the results of NCLB. My daughter is 25 now and I can remember when the playground equipment was removed from her elmentary school because recess was discontinued and they didn't want the legal liability associated with after school use of the playground. The schools (urban) that she went to were awful before NCLB was even thought of. At least the testing gives us some gauge as to how our schools are performing in Providence (very poorly).

Bob at PC

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From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu on behalf of John Clement
Sent: Sun 11/2/2008 11:32 PM
To: 'Forum for Physics Educators'
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] STUDY SUGGESTS NO CHILD LAW MAY BE DUMBING DOWNSTUDENTS



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Schools have been cutting out things that did not relate to the tests, so
things like music, recess... have been going away. But recess is one of the
few places where students can develop executive functioning according to
other research. It does not develop in the standard classroom.

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As to increases in test scores there is so much cheating going on, and the
tests are very dumbed down. Look at the miracle school in NC where they
found a huge number of erasures on student scantrons so they retested the
students with state monitors. The scores went down dramatically.