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Languages social studies left behind Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/8157177.htm http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/8157177.htm Posted on Thu, Mar. 11, 2004 Courses left behind Arts, languages, social studies getting less attention A study released Monday shows the No Child Left Behind Act is narrowing what's being taught in public school classrooms. That's hardly surprising. Since the law holds schools accountable only for student performance in math, reading and eventually science, predictably that's where schools are devoting the majority of their instructional time. Other courses that round out a student's educational experience and help boost performance in the core subjects are getting short shrift. Educators told the Council for Basic Education that to focus on the act's testing requirements, they've decreased instructional time for social studies, civics, geography, languages and the arts in order to devote more to the subjects that will be tested. The greatest cutbacks are in the arts. The study shows the curriculum is narrowed most in schools with large minority populations. The Council for Basic Education, a nonprofit education group advocating higher academic standards, conducted the study last fall to learn how the act was affecting instructional time. N.C. educators have long complained that the state's ABCs testing program forced teachers to focus most of their instructional time on areas the state tests -- reading and math, for instance -- and not enough to areas it doesn't, such as history. They say, and we agree, that leaves students deficient in important areas. Claus von Zastrow, the council's director of institutional development, summed up the report's findings this way: "In our effort to close achievement gaps in literacy and math, we risk substituting one kind of educational inequity with another. ... No Child Left Behind may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory if we define its vision for achievement too narrowly and thus institutionalize long-term academic mediocrity and inequity." He's right. As our schools move forward with the No Child Left Behind Act, such assessments should prompt some revisions. But we must move foward with the act. Though the act is flawed and has been implemented badly, the underlying principle is sound: Our schools must ensure that no child is left behind through our ignorance and unconcern. All children deserve an opportunity to achieve to the best of their ability.

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