Nclb Pros And Cons

In January 2002 congress, with the encouragement of President Bush, passed a new act that was intended to prevent children from being left behind in education. No Child Left Behind is designed to change the culture of America 's schools by closing the achievement gap, offering more flexibility, giving parents more options, and teaching students based on what works. This was and is a great idea. Children are our future and we need to make sure they get all the opportunities education can give them. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001(NCLB) is a well intentioned yet fundamentally flawed piece of legislation.

"No Child Left Behnd is based on testing, blaming and punishing," explained Lisa Guisbond, co-author of the FairTest report. "a more helpful
NCLB does provide for much needed innovation in education and allows parents unprecedented choice in the education of their children but it may jeopardize the success of traditional public schools, with such things as promoting charter schools. It provides a testing ground for innovative ideas and programs in education. However the amount of money needed to fund the charter schools serves relatively few students and spends money that could benefit more students in innovative programs within traditional public schools. This does however expand school choice in that it gives parents more direct control of the students ' education than previous generations have enjoyed. With expanding school choice it creates instability of funding that causes hardships and inability to manage finances and staffing needs from year to
"Nothing helps a child learn as much as a great teacher," said Secretary Spellings (October 8, 2008, press release). "Yet we often find our most experienced and effective teachers in our least challenging settings. Until this trend is reversed, we will not be able to solve our education system 's - and our country 's - biggest challenges. We must do a better job of treating teachers like the professionals they are and rewarding those who take on tougher work and get results." By encouraging effective professional development this encourages teachers to better themselves to better educate our children. This also provides funds for programs that encourage teachers to remain current on educational trends. With these provisions a significant portion of this money is often spent to help teachers better prepare students for standardized testing. NCLB receives grants for excellence in teaching. This money is provided to reward successful teachers and principals. The downside is that the success of teachers and principals is often measured through the same flawed instrument of students ' test scores on the standardized tests. In 2006 President Bush created the Teacher Incentive Fund, which supports districts in rewarding teachers and principals who have increased student achievement and helps to recruit and retain high quality teachers and principals in the neediest