Results: No child Left Behind
On January 8, 2002 the No Child Left Behind Act (standardized testing) was passed with bipartisan support 381 for 41 against and signed into law by President George Bush. Since then there has been no shortage of controversy on the No Child Left Behind Act. Some parents have opted there children out of taking standardized tests. In a study conducted from 2000 to 2009 American students dropped from 18th to 31st in math world rankings. In a 2015 study American students improved to 27th in the world for math. Some U.S. companies say they cannot find enough qualified American job seekers to fill positions that require strong math and science skills. Meanwhile Chinese students rank number one in reading, math and science in the world. China has a long history of using standardized testing.
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Are you familiar with the No Child Left Behind Act? Yes
56%
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934 votes
No
29%
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475 votes
Undecided
7%
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119 votes
Not Applicable
8%
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136 votes
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What should America's policy be? Drop standardized testing completely, it has not worked.
18%
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296 votes
Keep standardized testing, we need to give it more time. Math scores are starting to improve.
11%
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186 votes
Make students pass standardized tests in math, reading and science but not other subjects.
10%
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160 votes
Teach using both standardized and non-standardized tests and allow parents to decide.
14%
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233 votes
Learn from other countries and mix there study methods with ours.
24%
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393 votes
Unsure or undecided.
16%
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260 votes
No opinion.
23%
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380 votes
Other (please specify)
2%
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27 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.41% | 8 | |
| stop taking money away from art departments | 0.05% | 1 |
| i feel that children learn and different ways so therefore where standardized testing make work well for some students other's like myself never tested well. | 0.05% | 1 |
| change our whole educational system to be more like germany and japan and invest literally twice as much money into the books equipment and teachers education should be the very core of this country | 0.05% | 1 |
| stop teaching liberal junk and start teaching math and factual sciences | 0.05% | 1 |
| children should be tested in all subjects and if they fail they should have to repeat the grade. | 0.05% | 1 |
| hang all the bush administrations | 0.05% | 1 |
| early child hood testing should be dropped completely. our kinder sat math took one hour 50 minutes. no time for stretch break or restroom. insanity!!! | 0.05% | 1 |
| i dont agree with passing children even if they are failing. | 0.05% | 1 |
| dont teach to only pass tests. teach and use tests to measure the knowledge obtained. | 0.05% | 1 |
| improve the quality of the teachers | 0.05% | 1 |
| focus more on education than politics. | 0.05% | 1 |
| na | 0.05% | 1 |
| go back to what was working...government should stop trying to fix everything and only doing harm | 0.05% | 1 |
| shut all public schools down today forever | 0.05% | 1 |
| no child left behind i.e. pass them even if they can't read dose not work, make sure they know it before they pass it. | 0.05% | 1 |
| their children, not there children. | 0.05% | 1 |
| sad | 0.05% | 1 |
| methods should be mixed but the answer above says there instead of their | 0.05% | 1 |
| set standards for all students that are achievable and fair even if it dummies it down to some students. | 0.05% | 1 |
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Have you or some you know opted a child or children out of a standardized test or testing? Yes
8%
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139 votes
No
55%
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920 votes
Undecided
7%
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120 votes
Not Applicable
29%
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485 votes
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