Actually, We Are Leaving Children behind: How Changes to Title I under the No Child Left Behind Act Have Helped Relieve Public Schools of the Responsibility for Taking Care of Disadvantaged Students' Needs

Authors

Emily Suski, University of South Carolina - ColumbiaFollow

Publication Date

Spring 2007

Volume

14

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This article calls attention to the changes to Title I under NCLB that do a disservice to disadvantaged students. Under NCLB, Title I has shifted from its original focus on meeting the needs of disadvantaged students. These changes have removed almost any responsibility at all for taking care of the needs of disadvantaged students so they can learn in school, something this article terms ‘dynamic caretaking.’ It calls for revising Title I to require this kinds of dynamic caretaking in order to improve disadvantaged students’ access to education in public schools.

Recommended Citation

Emily Suski, Actually, We Are Leaving Children behind: How Changes to Title I under the No Child Left Behind Act Have Helped Relieve Public Schools of the Responsibility for Taking Care of Disadvantaged Students' Needs, 14 GEO. J. ON POVERTY L. & POL'Y 255 (2007).

Comments

Originally published in Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy and republished here with their permission.