Pierce reaction

Reaction to Pierce article

The article started out explaining the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) law and why it was enacted into law. Then it goes on to explain how teachers of English language learners (ELL) can help their students get prepared for tests they have to take which are mostly standardized and all in English. Other points that they explained in the article were how some states and parent groups and opponents of NCLB and their actions against it, other point covered were how states were coping with effects of NCLB to their states and districts.
It’s amazing that those who put this NCLB act seemed to think that every student will reach this “proficiency” score! No thought of those students whose first language is other than English, language minority, and English language learners. It was good to see the point of the authors to mention that there has been research that says that language fluency takes a while to master, anywhere from 4 to 7/8 years! Here they had made mention that immigrants and language minority students can wait 3 years to get “caught” up before they have to take the test.