December 2008
Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Medford, MA: Despite public belief to the co
ntrary, schools are not shifting away from teaching social studies, liberal arts, and sciences directly because of the pressures of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), according to a new study released by Tisch College’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University. In fact, at the middle and high school levels, curricula have remained constant and in some cases expanded since the federal law was passed in 2001.
CIRCLE analyzed five major federal datasets looking at the how curricula and relevant extracurricular activities have changed at the elementary, middle and high school levels from 1987 to 2005. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the full report is entitled Narrower at the Base: The American Curriculum After NCLB. Click to read the full study in PDF format.
In grades one through five, the curriculum has narrowed over the last ten years, with more time devoted to reading and math and less to science, arts, and social studies. These declines, however, began in the 1990s before the passage of NCLB. The trends are the same in private and public schools and in schools with majorities of white and minority students.
It would also be expected that new teachers would be influenced by current expectations and pressures to emphasize English and math, whereas veteran teachers would more likely maintain teaching priorities from their early days in education. The study found the reverse is true, with newer teachers providing a broader curriculum.
Even though the k-12 curriculum has not narrowed consistently, and even though NCLB is not mainly responsible for the narrowing that has occurred, the curricula may still be too narrow to prepare young people for citizenship. Extracurricular activities such as music, drama, student journalism, and student government, are also too rare.
Suggested citation: Levine, P., Lopez, M.H., and Marcelo, K.B. 2008. Getting Narrower at the Base: The American Curriculum after NCLB. CIRCLE (The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement) , via http://www.civicyouth.org/?p=325
Download the press release.
Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement
I think that the idea to organaise No Child Left Behind Act is really helpfull and is worth of means spent on it. I hope that really none of the children won’t be left alone with his\her problems! God bless what you are doing
Completely agree with you that at the middle and high school levels, curricula have remained constant and in some cases expanded since the federal law was passed.And it’s a pity that schools are not shifting away from teaching social studies, liberal arts, and sciences.
Even though the k-12 curriculum has not narrowed consistently, and even though NCLB is not mainly responsible for the narrowing that has occurred, the curricula may still be too narrow to prepare young people for citizenship. Extracurricular activities such as music, drama, student journalism, and student government, are also too rare. Totally my words mate, it is important to let everybody else see the stuff you write about here.
It would also be expected that new teachers would be influenced by current expectations and pressures to emphasize English and math, whereas veteran teachers would more likely maintain teaching priorities from their early days in education. The study found the reverse is true, with newer teachers providing a broader curriculum. I think this is going to be a great move
NCLB must be improved I suppose.
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Kids need to be taught practical things. They have no idea how to leverage their education in the real world. Most kids get out of school and have no idea even how to rent an apartment, let alone keeping America at the forefront of innovation. Something is wrong.
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yes it was kind of ironic that no child left behind… let a trough slip through the gaps. good to see it is improving though
I believe that our curriculum must not remain stagnant. Our society is constantly evolving towards an advanced place to live in. Hence, by constantly adapting the school curriculum to such, we are giving our youth a solid foundation.
I think right now we struggle with NCLB. The real problems is funding; where is the support?
Who is highly qualified and who is a dork?
And the biggest question with NCLB is if no one can fail, how can anyone succeed?
This research is very important. I wonder how the decline in science can impact our nation’s competitive advantage. Isn’t research and innovation a key reason of why our economy is successful?
NCLB is a tool for the youth of today to grow by, issues will arise in all of our lives. I find the majority find minimal interest in our government.
I searched for the history of NCLB Act, and found much information but could get my answer that what is the actual mission behind the inception of this act, means No Child Left Behind for what?
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Interesting article. Very useful. Thank you.
answer is still a mystery but very good research, helpful information
It’s very important to revive extracurricular activities especially student journalism…
While I agree Reading and Math should be core focuses, I’m not sure shifting away from Science and the Arts is such a great thing. Though I have always felt that Social Studies carried too much emphasis. Though it’s important to learn history, it has little value (besides moral) in the real world. That is, unless you’re planning to write a book or become a teacher or historian.
I really support this! Extracurricular activities are fatal to a child’s development. Really great information here. Thank you.
Here in Thailand are extracurricular activities standard as the basic education isn’t good at all.
I have to agree with Koh Samui Villas. The educational standard here is far behind the West and every additional chance to improve knowledge is mandatory for a secure future.
Reading and math should be a core focus. However in order to improve this beyond the very base level into a certain level interpretation. The social subjects are vital to take reading ability to develop greater level of understanding and interpretation.
Yeah education is way far behind unfortunately. I truly support this.
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great to see this has started happening.Don
I’m not sure shifting away from Science and the Arts is such a great thing. Though I have always felt Social Studies carried too much emphasis.
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Young people are pretty savvy these days when it come to the lastest ways of the world They need to have strong values to get to were they want to be Don Brad
That’s a really true problem that we’re facing in these cruel world..
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Article is very nicely written, I think we need to promote the ideas related to civic education, then we can achieve the goals. Thanks
NCLB should be improved with more strict guidelines for a better future
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I agree that we need to teach young people practical thing but we need to be more responsible teaching them.
It is really important and here the matter is also very serious to teach the young generation with the latest norms and techniques of the society to make them better citizens.
Can you list up some here, we need to progress with spread of information on this because awareness on this issue is very important in current situation.
It’s a bitter truth that students are not much interested in learning social studies,but we mustn’t forget the importance of it because it relates us to our surroundings as well as it reminds us about our past.
I agree that awareness and information are key to the issue.
Thank you very much for the information provided! I was looking for this data for a long time.
This article is quite informative. I think we need to change the education system first. We need to raise our voice to enhance the free education system and syllabus.
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It’s a bitter truth that students are not much interested in learning social studies,but we mustn’t forget the importance of it because it relates us to our surroundings as well as it reminds us about our past.
It is really important and here the matter is also very serious to teach the young generation with the latest norms and techniques of the society to make them better citizens.
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Though I have always felt that Social Studies carried too much emphasis.
I believe that our curriculum must not remain stagnant. Our society is constantly evolving towards an advanced place to live in. Hence, by constantly adapting the school curriculum to such, we are giving our youth a solid foundation…
Excellent article, thanks for sharing.
I’m glad that I found this site. Very interesting article about the curriculum. Well, I think I am going to study the PDF now
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It is a bitter truth that students are not much interested in learning the social sciences, but we must not forget the importance of it because we respect our surroundings, and it reminds us of our past.
That is a great press release. It’s great to see that the newer teachers are once again aiming at providing a more rounded curriculum rather than just concentrating on maths and reading. In this way the strengths of individual children are more likely to be discovered.
quite an inspiring story, making me rethink about our countries’ education system, thanks for sharing
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I gave up on our education system a long time ago but it’s still nice to see a story like this though.
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I gave up on our education system a long time ago but it’s still nice to see a story like this though.
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It’s a bitter truth that students are not much interested in learning social studies,but we mustn’t forget the importance of it because it relates us to our surroundings as well as it reminds us about our past. I did read this blog and it was very interesting. I liked the second part the most.
I think there is too much emphasis on the general abilities of children/students in terms of the general subjects, I believe that the academic system doesn’t allow you to choose your own career whilst at school, they don’t educate you on the life skills and the social skills which we need in life, nor do we go through other possible careers such as Dentistry or Veterinary. I think the schooling system is to focused on going to uni and getting a degree - yet they dont actually consider what your going to UNI for.
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Even though the k-12 curriculum has not narrowed consistently, and even though NCLB is not mainly responsible for the narrowing that has occurred, the curricula may still be too narrow to prepare young people for citizenship. You made some good points here.Keep us posting. Excellent article i am sure that i will come back here soon. What template do you use in your site?
Finally we have a brand new facility to support the activity further. Hope they make good use of this.
I believe that our curriculum must not remain stagnant. Our society is constantly evolving towards an advanced place to live in.Thank you for highlighting this, keep up your good work.
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I think the idea of organaise No Child Left Behind is really useful and worth the means employed in it. I really hope none of the children are not left alone with their problems! God bless what you are doing.
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Extraciricular activites are the backbone to impoving our society. Keep up the good work for the children.
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Like this.I read The American Curriculum After NCLB.I think it will make our children more active.
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I never experienced anything like that when I’m at school. And until I graduated, I also never heard about anything like that. I think that’s really fatal.
Totally agree with you that in the middle and high school levels, curricula have remained constant and in some cases expanded since the federal law was passed.And is a shame that schools are moving from teaching social studies, humanities and sciences.
I never experienced anything like that when I’m at school. And until I graduated, I also never heard about anything like that. I think that’s really fatal.Thanks for share!
Although the K-12 curriculum has not been reduced steadily, and although the NCLB law is not primarily responsible for the declines that have occurred, the curriculum may still be too narrow to prepare young people for citizenship . Extracurricular activities such as music, theater, journalism student and student government are also rare.
Yes I was a bit ironic that no child left behind… let one slip through via holes. good to see that getting better though
Nice research, but the information is too old now, can you upgrade it?
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If the process need about 5 steps of assemblying, so they need 5 people to do it. So each person just do the same thing for their job. That’s more efficient I think.
In every project, they always preparing anything very well. They are really experienced in this job, so they already know the way of finishing it.
Government are also announced many of project for all citizens. And usually it’s a high-value project, that’s why so many people want to take the project.
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Before starting any project, they must make a good planing and working system. So they will not get any problems in the process, at least they just get a little.
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I think it’s not too bad.
They will learn it out in a remarkable way. I hope we have big supporters out there, lol
Good luck for the meeting. The new facility should give us more resources in the discussion.
The new students should also know about this. See it is operating well from the center?
Good luck for the plans. I am not sure yet what it will bring in the future, but so far it sounds good.
Thank you for the continuous support. They are giving away great trials for the project.
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I am not sure yet that it will bring in the future,but so far it sounds good.
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I like the post, which will help us to improve the quality of education a lot.
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NCLB is a tool for the youth of today to grow by, issues will arise in all of our lives. I find the majority find minimal interest in our government.
Schools nowadays are plausible as they are accessible to anyone. I think we can make better future for the children.
But the kids only kids. They’re still inexperience. They don’t know what the world is really like.
Education is important. We all need that to live a good life.
Thank you for the great comment very much.
Don’t worry about the changes. It is all in the right process to guide the organization to a continuous imporvement.
Why is it there’s a decline in science, arts, and social studies? These fields are equally important.
Yes, it is true. They must have prepared well for the changes. Good luck!
It sounds like a perfect time to implement the new strategies, anyway. Why not enroll two at once?
Maybe the differences are obvious for some. See the signs? Yes, we should be ready for it.
Education is important for children and the NCLB project is a great way of giving education to underprivileged kids.
These changes are planned for a long time ago. They should have been ready for it.
It is great to listen to some feedback while they are developing the plan. Good luck for the team..
I hope they can keep improving the system. Such leakages can be bad in long term.
I agree with 157, improvements are to be made to avoid those inconveniences.
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I hope to find good support here. It has been a while since we last find a great mission for this. Good luck!
Good luck for the meeting. The new facility should give us more resources in the discussion.