No Child Left Behind Act Pros And Cons

Every child deserves a quality education. The No Child Left Behind Act was an attempt from the Bush administration to help improve schools through funding, and required test based accountability to keep track of academic progress is schools. The No Child Left Behind Act is the most recent version of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and was passed by congress in 2001. The Law was signed by President George W. Bush on January 8, 2001. The Act was intended for schools to pass state academic standards and assessments. The No Child Left Behind Act required annually testing in grades 3 through 8 in reading and math. The Law also requires states to make their test results public to see how states are progressing toward their proficiency objectives. The test results are broken down according to poverty, race, ethnicity, disability, and limited English …show more content…
There have been concerns about the policy’s implications for poor and minority children. The goal of No Child Left Behind to reach a 100% proficiency level for all schools was unrealistic because schools with poor or minority children were pushed down because of the competition. The No Child Left Behind Act’s test based accountability and subgroup provisions provide incentives for segregating schools. The Act punishes schools with the most diverse populations, and contains implications that hinder the education quality and availability for poor and minority children. The No Child Left Behind Act should be more centralized so that the needs of the individual student can be met. The Act requires high-stake testing that causes teachers to teach to the the test, and the consequence for schools not receiving adequate test scores leads to decreased funding for these schools.
Schools should rather focus on the overall