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    Failures of No Child Left Behind Act Education should be personalized and not standardized. Today’s education is build on the principles of the Industrial Revolution, which focused on creating and producing identical “consumer” products cheaply and ensuring quality control. This is why the No Child Left Behind Act is detrimental to our education system today. It has handed education into the hands of the federal government. The government has taken great management over the education and is…

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    President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Public Law 107-110, into law on January 8, 2002. It was described as having the goal of closing “the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind (No Child Left Behind Act)”. The law is centered on adequate yearly progress (AYP), which is the annual achievement targets that all students (including minority subgroups) are expected to reach. Subgroups, as defined by the NCLB,…

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    13 years in school, just to acquire a high school degree and receive an education. However, in recent years, the U.S. Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act: an act that requires states to administer assessments in order to receive funding from the federal government and to enable that all the states to have academically equivalent. In effect of this act, schools have now changed their entire curriculum to teach these standardized tests and pay their teachers based on the results.…

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    Does your child struggle in school? Get low test grades? The No Child Left Behind Act can be the solution to this problem. This Act is very helpful to all students from grades K-12. This law allows students to be entitled to accommodations on state tests, assessments that measure the progress of students with learning and attention issues, and helps to provide more funding to the school system. I’m assuming this is an argumentative essay. (you need a transition word like First, or The most…

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    in the classroom. This is because of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 made it so that the standardized test scores would increase to help show improvement in student proficiency. Before the No Child Left Behind Act, some students would struggle in school. In 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was sent to congress. "The Act was passed by Congress with bipartisan support in December of 2001," (No Child Left Behind).…

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    When it comes to pros there is 4 main things that are plus to the NCLB Act. When it comes to cons there is also 4 problems this act causes. One of the pros is that every disadvantaged student will get the opportunity to improve their skills to match those of advanced or intelligent students. Another one is the educational institution is supposed to enforce…

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    Most of the conversations surrounding standardized testing consist of test averages and state rules. Students actually taking the exam are often left out and not addressed. Standardized testing became the norm across public schools with the passing of George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. The policy was set up to establish an accountability system for all states regarding failing educational systems and the children they were impacting. The mechanism that aimed to do this was…

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    In 2002 The United States Legislature passed the No Child Left Behind Act. The negative connotations of this act has pervaded our failing school system now for fourteen years. Students, parents, and teachers alike have all grown a resentment for the idea that, despite the effort, a student has the opportunity to fail, parents have the opportunity to bear witness to that failure, and teachers hold the considerable weight of believing it is due to their inadequacy. Individuals who possess…

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    When the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002, it was with the goal of making American students competitive in the global economy, and lowering the achievement gap for low-income and minority students. Educators and politicians were troubled by the intractable achievement gaps that seemed only to grow worse with each passing year. The achievement gap between white and minority students reached their lowest levels in 1988, and after that point…

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    No Child Left Behind is a federal act which many federal educational programs are administered by the states. This is kind of the reboot of Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The No Child Left Behind act was enacted the year of 2002 where states are required to test students from grade 3-8 in reading and math and one more time in high school, where students must exceed or sufficiently score a reasonable grade meeting the average. The focus of No Child Left Behind is to make schools close…

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