{"id":54,"date":"2009-05-20T12:28:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T12:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-05-29T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:06:53","slug":"no-child-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/no-child-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"No Child Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickfire.com\/georgebush.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/no-child-left-behind-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"George Bush, helping out kids\" title=\"George Bush, helping out kids\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-140\" \/><\/a>Former US President George Bush is well known for his gaffes, but as it turns out, he may actually be helping kids \u201cread good\u201d after all. <\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reports that his derided <strong>No Child Left Behind<\/strong> (NCLB) law may actually be helping children whose primary language is not English.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Education experts say that for English language learners in particular, the law has had some benefits. Because NCLB requires such students to be tracked as a subgroup, educators now weigh more seriously what is working, what is not working, and what could work with ELLs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2009\/feb\/06\/no-child-left-behind-english-learning\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US President George Bush is well known for his gaffes, but as it turns out, he may actually be helping kids \u201cread good\u201d after all. The Guardian reports that his derided No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law may actually be helping children whose primary language is not English. Education experts say that for English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40],"tags":[41,42,43],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language-acquisition","tag-america","tag-english-as-second-language","tag-no-child-left-behind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}