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Students will utilize the class Wiki page to post a response/reflection to designated topics that have been discussed in class. The post is an opportunity for students to synthesize their ideas and to articulate a personal opinion on the designated issue based upon readings and in-class discussion. __The response should be two to three well-developed paragraphs and demonstrate the student’s understanding of the issue and rationale to support his/her position.__ The posting must be done prior to the next class meeting. Students are to read other posts by their classmates and __ **comment on at least one of them.** __ The instructor will make the assignment for the Weekly Issue Response five time during the semester.
 * Weekly Issue Response – 50 points (5 responses @ 10 points each)**

=** No Child Left Behind **= Over the course of the last two classes, we have discussed No Child Left Behind and its impact on public education. For this Weekly Issue Response, take an opportunity to reflect upon your personal, current thinking about NCLB. Consider such ideas as whether or not the goals of NCLB are good for public education, how NCLB has changed what we do in schools and whether or not this is good or bad, or if improvement can exist in the absence of accountability. Before we began our discussions, it was probably "easy" for you to articulate reasons that you did not like NCLB. Can you identify any positive aspects of what we do in schools today as a result of the provisions of NCLB? Incorporate information from any of the materials that you have read.