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The “No Child Left Behind Act (2002),” or NCLB is the culmination of decades of political. tension revolving around education and represents a massive, bipartisan reform effort that. fundamentally altered the role of the federal government in the public education of the children. of the United States.
Apr 10, 2015 · The No Child Left Behind law—the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools accountable for student outcomes. In ...
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Aug 30, 2017 · The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 was the first national law to require consequences for U.S. schools based on students’ standardized test scores. Although the NCLB era officially came to a close in December 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), NCLB’s replacement, continues to include consequences for schools according to standardized test scores.
- Camille R. Whitney, Christopher A. Candelaria
- 2017
which was central to the law’s rhetoric: because no child would be hidden by a school’s average test scores, the law would ensure that no child was left behind. Achievement gaps would no longer be hidden, but put on full public display. The second model of educational change sought to use behavior-modification accountability methods, popularly
Linda Darling-Hammond. When Congress passed George W. Bush's signature education initiative, No Child Left Behind, it was widely hailed as a bipartisan breakthrough--a victory for American children, particularly those traditionally underserved by public schools. Now, five years later, the debate over the law's reauthorization has a decidedly ...
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Student Achievement / 443. Some commentators have argued that the failure of NCLB and earlier accountability reforms to close achievement gaps reflects a flawed, implicit assumption that schools. alone can overcome the achievement consequences of dramatic socioeconomic.
A Policy Analysis from a Social Work Perspective Christine Lagana-Riordan andjemel P. Aguilar The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) initiated sweeping changes to the U,S, educational system. However, many have argued that NCLB is not accomplishing its stated purposes of improving education for disadvantaged students and closing the ...
