Theory Post

Education has been a widely argued topic between intellectuals and non-intellectuals alike. In the past 8 years there have been sides on the topic of education due to the legislation, No Child Left Behind. Personally, I feel the two sides are those who are for the the complete reworking of the legislation and those who are not. These positions came after the american public education system experienced the No Child Left Behind plan for the first year. The side not in favor of the plan continued to move further and further away from it as time progressed. It is not this simple, but with all the evidence that the legislation has not worked and can not work it would seem that the group of people who want to continue to with the same legislation are not well informed on the issue. Politically, both democrats and republicans want to reform the legislation in order to better the education system and set atainable goals that can be funded. In the end the different sides on this issue are not that polarized.
To bring the two sides closer together I believe it would be helpful for the people who want to keep the legislation to listen to some people who are in the field of education talk about their problems with it. This particular issue is one that is hard to bring both sides together on. Either you change the legislation or you don't. Both groups want what is best for children and if one group presents an idea that works better than the other one would think that the other group would be in favor of changing their plan so the children could experience the best education possible.