National educator at Brenau questions 'No Child Left Behind'

GAINESVILLE - A nationally known educator speaking at Brenau University said Friday that the federal government's 'no Child Left Behind' program was the 'wrong way to go."

Dr. Douglas Clements from the State University of New York in Buffalo was the afternoon keynote speaker at Brenau's Early Childhood Institute.
Clements served on former President Bush's National Math Advisory Panel; he said 'No Child Left Behind' stresses testing, not teaching and learning.

"When you put all your attention into that test, then it bends teaching to just that test," Clements said.â