No Child Left Behind Act

decision maker in the No Child Left Behind Act was President George W. Bush. In 2001 he put into action a position that was to be overseen by the Secretary of Education. The responsibilities of the Secretary of Education were to increase the accountability of the schools that were underperforming, allowing parents to have a more informed choice on where their child attended school, and to increase the test scores of low performing schools. When President Bush put the act into effect his hope was…

No Child Left Behind legislation placed student achievement and accountability of results squarely on the leadership of a school, the principal. The adoption of the Common Core standards has not lessened this…

Studies have shown that the high school completion rate is affected by the family’s income/class. Children that came from an upper class family are more likely to get their high school diploma and continue their education with the financial help from their parents, by providing their children with tutors, higher quality education and more opportunities for after school activities which expands their horizons. Upper class only has a 2% drop out rate in high school. At this moment the…

students don’t test well but actually do know what they are talking about because they suffer from test anxiety and the pressures put on them from the test, and the tests arent doing anything to help our nation or states unlike what the goals of No Child Left Behind are. Standardized testing shouldn’t be happening in our education system. The one side of the…

in education leads to positive benefits in students’ achievement. According to the article “Parental Involvement is Key”, by Grace Chen, research proves that when parents are involved in their child’s education, the child will achieve more. The beliefs of “No Child Left Behind Act” on parental involvement as well as advice for how parents can be more involved are also discussed in the text. Research results support conclusions that parental involvement increases achievement in the…

against schools internationally, which during the time put the government in charge of keeping the schools on track and accountable. Which resulted in poor test scores. The No Child Left behind act was then was signed it as a law in 2002. This act attempted to improve performance of the many groups of students that usually fall behind in class by increasing accountability in the schools (Klein). This required that students had to test students from grades 3-8 in reading and math every year to…

United States of America. It’s rise over the past 20 plus years has caused much speculation on whether or not it is the best form of assessment for K-12 students. The rise is largely due to the Goals 2000: Educate America Act that passed in 1994 and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This legislation shifted the focus of assessment onto multiple choice testing of common state curriculum, with the hopes that it would raise the standards of Education all over the country. This shift has not…

improved. For example, each student that is within a special education classroom does not have the same disability as another student. Even if their diagnosis is the same, the spectrum is huge and one child could be more severe than the other. By this, one might consider how all needs of a child with disabilities are met and how some students’ needs are not being met in all aspects. The questions then are raised such as Naomi Zigmond (2016) stated. “Where should students with disabilities…

class time for broader lessons. The standardized testing does not measure the educational quality because by the time the test comes around the child is worn out; and no longer has…

Multicultural education is not really represent in today’s classroom. Multicultural education is very important in a child education. Multicultural education allows students to learn other classmates’ cultural backgrounds while also learning at the same time. A teachers can easily change up there lesson plans so they accommodate the students in the classroom; allow the students to learn about the histories, values, beliefs, and perspectives of people from different cultural backgrounds. Students…