The No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 is an act that was created to “close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind”. The act was passed by congress on December 13, 2001 and signed into law by President George W. Bush on January 8, 2002 at Hamilton High School in Hamilton, OH. Two years after the President signed the NCLB into law a statue of the President was built outside of Hamilton high school. The NCLB Act was the first major change in education since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
The Act costs about one billion-dollars a year and it gives parents a report card on the school’s performance and tells schools they must have highly-qualified teachers. The Act gives states the power to “design and implement” their own annual tests. The federal government does federal testing and shows how well the schools are doing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP is also known as the Nation’s Report Card.
The Act gives school districts more control over how federal education funds are used. The federal National Assessment of Educational Progress Assessments are given “periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history”.
The Act has ten titles or sections that divide it into ten parts. The two important titles are “Title I -Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged” and “Title II- Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals”.
The purpose of Title I is to make sure all children are given a fair opportunity to “obtain a high-quality education” and close the “achievement gap between high- and low-performing children”. The students are challenged to do well on the state assessments and any students that are failing can get help from highly qualified teachers.
The purpose of Title II is to make sure schools have grants
The Act costs about one billion-dollars a year and it gives parents a report card on the school’s performance and tells schools they must have highly-qualified teachers. The Act gives states the power to “design and implement” their own annual tests. The federal government does federal testing and shows how well the schools are doing by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The NAEP is also known as the Nation’s Report Card.
The Act gives school districts more control over how federal education funds are used. The federal National Assessment of Educational Progress Assessments are given “periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history”.
The Act has ten titles or sections that divide it into ten parts. The two important titles are “Title I -Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged” and “Title II- Preparing, Training, and Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals”.
The purpose of Title I is to make sure all children are given a fair opportunity to “obtain a high-quality education” and close the “achievement gap between high- and low-performing children”. The students are challenged to do well on the state assessments and any students that are failing can get help from highly qualified teachers.
The purpose of Title II is to make sure schools have grants
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