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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Head Start has had a strong positive impact on fundamental reading skills in disadvantaged areas. It's a place I'd be more likely to start looking for a model.
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Head Start is a program designed to help kids learn better, faster. NCLB is simply a means of measurement of the success of schools. Completely different aims. And, the costs of NCLB are fairly small - and so the supposed "unfunded" portion (the existence of which is debatable to begin with) is even smaller, and is not interfering with Head Start. If you want to argue about the need for more Head Start funding, great, I'll help, but that's not a component of the "here's why NCLB and/or testing is bad" argument.
