What education-related issues are debated?
Curricula: * President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act has been the subject of much attention, particularly during the current election campaign. The Act seeks to make local school districts accountable for their students’ performance as well as allowing more flexibility for parents to choose which school district their child attends. * The United States continues to be a nation of immigrants. The foreign-born now comprise 12 percent of the country’s population and many do not speak English (mostly Spanish but also Mandarin, Tagalog, French, Vietnamese and many other languages). Some advocacy groups are pushing for bilingual education, but a majority of school districts use the English as a Second Language program to teach non English-speaking students. * Sex education is another issue of considerable debate. In most districts, it is covered in some fashion in the school curricula, but there is a constant debate between those who say students need it for health reasons, and t
