Search results
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is potentially the most significant educational initiative to have been enacted in decades. Among the salient elements of this initiative are requirements that all students have qualified teachers and be given the opportunity to attend high-quality schools.
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the main federal law for K–12 general education. It covers all students in public schools. When it was passed in 2015, ESSA replaced the controversial No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The two laws are different, but they have some things in common. This chart shows the differences between them.
Jan 30, 2006 · The president’s much-discussed No Child Left Behind Act can take some credit for the modest gains of the past two years. By holding schools to account for the learning of all their students, especially minority and needy children, the law has captured the attention of educators nationwide.
The controversial No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) brought test-based school accountability to scale across the United States. This study draws together results from multiple data sources to identify how the new accountability systems developed in response to NCLB have influenced student achievement, school-district finances, and measures of school and teacher practices.
Concerns have been expressed that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act may be reducing the amount of classroom time devoted to subjects other than those for which schools are held responsible, namely math, science, and reading. 1 To the extent that the concern is accurate, schools—and especially those that are not performing well—may be “narrowing the curriculum” 2 by allocating ...
Apr 29, 2024 · The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as revised and passed by President George W. Bush in 2001, is commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act (also as NCLB or the NCLB Act). Recently, NCLB has been reauthorized as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015 by President Barack Obama.
Jun 28, 2016 · Yes, it is. And No Child Left Behind is about freedom and equality and justice” ( Goldstein and Beutel 2008, cited under History of Standards-Based Reform, p. 7). The act’s statement of purpose affirms that its goal involves “closing the achievement gap between high and low-performing children, especially the achievement gaps between ...
