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No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001

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No Child Left Behind

(NCLB) Act of 2001

Fear Kicks in………….. Yikes!!

1957

We must make our kids smarter!

MathEnglishScience

We can’t let the Russians beat us!

The Federal Government decides to step in with the NCLB Act……

President Bush signs into law in 2002

and re-authorizes the

Elementary & Secondary Education Act of 1965, signed by

President Lyndon Johnson in 1965

Affected by this Act:

What students are taught

What tests they take

The training of teachers

The way money is generally spent on education

What do the States have to do?

Set targets for 2 catagories:

Overall achievementand

Specific Catagories of students, (ex. economically disadvantaged students)

Overall Achievement

This is determined by how the the students

perform on standardized tests

Tests are taken and compared by grade levels; it does not track the same students the following year to see if there was improvement.

Let’s look at the pros and cons

Emphasizes reading,writing and math

Teachers are forced to “teach to the test” and does not put a primary goal of learning

Measures educationalstatus and growth by ethnicity, bridging thegap between white andminority students

Ignores important subjects such as history, arts, and foreign languages

Focus on providingeducation to studentswith disabilities andlow-income families

States are able to generate their ownstandardized tests andmay make them easierby incorporating moremultiple choice questions

Annually, parents areprovided with a detailedreport of student achievement

Requires studentsto learn the samematerial at the samepace and take the same test

Where are we now?

The original goal of 100 percent

proficiency by the school year 2013-2014

is upon us. We are far from reaching

that goal.

Quote from June 20, 2013 newspaper:No Child Left Behind Revisited

WASHINGTON (AP)-

Members of the Republican-led House education panel are sending their rewrite of No Child Left Behind to the full House for a vote. The House Education and the Workforce Committee on Wednesday finished work on a rewrite of the sweeping education law. In the revised version, states would have more authority and Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors would have less. The Republican update, which was branded the Student Success Act, would allow state and local school chiefs to decide if students are being well served. Democrats on the panel objected to the proposed revision, saying it shirks Washington’s role in guaranteeing support for poor and minority students.