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Unit Plan
C-SPAN

C Span Classroom: Teaching About Standardized Testing

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive multi-media learning materials plus lesson plan on the debate over standardized testing in schools allows students to debate for themselves whether or not Congress should continue to require annual standardized tests for...
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Website
US Department of Education

Fact Sheet: No Child Left Behind

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives readers an overview of the No Child Left Behind Act. Addresses accountability, reducing red tape, school choice, improving reading, teacher quality, and progress.
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Article
Other

Mother Jones: No Child Unrecruited 11/02

For Students 9th - 10th
Progressive news source explores a little known portion of the No Child Left Behind Act which forces schools to give the military access to the names, addresses, phone numbers, and other personal information of their students, or face...
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Article
CBS

Cbs News: 1,700 Schools Face Radical Makeovers

For Students 9th - 10th
May, 2006, article chronicling the restructuring of 1,700 schools which have failed to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind.
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Primary
Other

New Talk: Do We Need a Basic Rewrite of No Child Left Behind?

For Students 9th - 10th
New Talk provides an online forum where a panel of non partisan experts in their field discuss relevant domestic issues of today. This discussion focuses on the No Child Left Behind Act and what needs to be done about it. Can it be...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: 2002 No Child Left Behind Act

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed facts and an overview of the No Child Left Behind Act passed January 8, 2002, requiring standardized math and reading tests.