Eva Du
Period 1
A Brief History of High Stakes Testing and the No Child Left Behind Act
In 1965 As a part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, a domestic program that called for the federal government’s creation of new social welfare programs, Johnson implemented the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The main purpose of the ESEA was for the federal government to “supply aid for underprivileged children in schools in order to improve the performance of these students and elevate them to the same level that the more privileged students were achieving at the time” (Holmes 2009). The ESEA ordered the establishment of programs for schools with a high density of students from poverty-stricken families, and it also established several bilingual programs and Head Start, a preschool program for children of …show more content…
The IASA increased efforts to analyze the scores of students in disadvantaged communities; however, it provided no real consequences for schools that were underperforming. To further enforce increased education efforts and to provide the enforcing repercussions that the IASA lacked, President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001. The act combines the goals of the ESEA and the IASA while also dealing consequences to schools that failed to meet the proposed goals. The act entails that school funding for low income districts increase in exchange for higher academic progress as recorded by annual test scores. States are to be in charge of enforcing these ideals, and for schools who fail to meet requirements, federal NCLB funds are not given. Schools who continually fail to meet standards may face drastic restructuring that includes the firing of teachers, privatization, and state takeover. NCLB also provides extra funding for specific programs to schools who meet standards consistently and aids in the creation of a plan of action for
Period 1
A Brief History of High Stakes Testing and the No Child Left Behind Act
In 1965 As a part of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society, a domestic program that called for the federal government’s creation of new social welfare programs, Johnson implemented the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The main purpose of the ESEA was for the federal government to “supply aid for underprivileged children in schools in order to improve the performance of these students and elevate them to the same level that the more privileged students were achieving at the time” (Holmes 2009). The ESEA ordered the establishment of programs for schools with a high density of students from poverty-stricken families, and it also established several bilingual programs and Head Start, a preschool program for children of …show more content…
The IASA increased efforts to analyze the scores of students in disadvantaged communities; however, it provided no real consequences for schools that were underperforming. To further enforce increased education efforts and to provide the enforcing repercussions that the IASA lacked, President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2001. The act combines the goals of the ESEA and the IASA while also dealing consequences to schools that failed to meet the proposed goals. The act entails that school funding for low income districts increase in exchange for higher academic progress as recorded by annual test scores. States are to be in charge of enforcing these ideals, and for schools who fail to meet requirements, federal NCLB funds are not given. Schools who continually fail to meet standards may face drastic restructuring that includes the firing of teachers, privatization, and state takeover. NCLB also provides extra funding for specific programs to schools who meet standards consistently and aids in the creation of a plan of action for