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- NCLB sought to increase accountability, close achievement gaps, and provide more options for parents. The main pillars of the NCLB Act included annual standardized testing, Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements, school improvement plans, and the concept of school choice.
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Aug 30, 2017 · Many people have worried about possible adverse effects of high-stakes testing on socioemotional outcomes. This article uses a difference-in-differences approach to investigate the effects of the introduction of high-stakes testing via the No Child Left Behind Act on socioemotional outcomes.
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Achievement Gaps. Equitable Outcomes. Challenges. Transition to the Every Student Succeeds Act and implications for U.S. schools. Overview of the No Child Left Behind Act and its key provisions. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was a federal education law that aimed to improve the quality of education in U.S. schools.
- The History of NCLB
- Report Cards
- Teacher Qualifications
- Funding
- Reading First Grants
- The Effects of NCLB
- The Future of NCLB
- High Standards For Academic Achievement
- Accountability
- Teacher Quality
NCLB’s central goal of improving the educational outcome for all students means just that . . . allstudents. Through the use of standardized tests, each school district and each school assess the entire student population to ensure that the school as a whole is moving toward “proficiency.” The students’ performance on the standardized tests is used...
States and school districts are required to produce report cards, accounting for each school’s scores for statewide testing. The report cards are made public and are meant to assist in closing the achievement gap among states, school districts, schools, and subgroups.
Every new teacher has to be “highly qualified” in his/her subject, meaning he/she has to have at least a bachelor’s degree and pass a state test in his/her subject area. The qualification standards are also required for paraprofessionals. In order to be considered “highly qualified,” paraprofessionals must either (1) have completed two years of col...
NCLB included provisions to increase funding where necessary, in an effort to give disadvantaged schools more money. The funding would then be used to implement research-based teaching programs and teacher trainings in schools in an effort to improve scores.
NCLB created Reading First Grants, which assist schools, especially those in high-poverty areas, in creating research-based reading programs for kindergarten through third-grade students. Reading First Grants will fund reading programs for ninety-minute blocks, five days a week, and will also be used to fund teacher training.
After ten years under NCLB, how have schools fared? According to the Center for Education Policy (CEP), for the 2010–11 school year, it is estimated that 48 percent of schools did not make AYP. Alexandra Usher, Ctr. for Educ. Policy, AYP Results for 2010–2011 (Dec. 2011).This was an increase over the previous year, which was 39 percent, and was the...
In the fall of 2011, President Obama announced that the Department of Education would provide states the opportunity to apply for a waiver from certain requirements of NCLB. Calling NCLB “broken” and citing Congress’s failure to fix NCLB through the reauthorization process, the federal government outlined a path for states to enjoy greater flexibil...
One of the many criticisms of NCLB is that the law allowed each state to define “proficiency.” This, however, means that standards from state to state could be vastly different. It also provided states with an incentive to set the academic bar too low so that these states could meet their AYP and “proficiency” goals more easily. In its explanation ...
The NCLB accountability provisions solely relied on testing to measure progress toward the ultimate goal of “proficiency.” By emphasizing testing, some unintended consequences resulted, such as (a) narrowing the curriculum to focus on those areas that are being tested; (b) placing greater weight on core skills such reading, writing, and math to the...
Under NCLB, teacher quality focused on the educational background and certification of teachers while professional development focused on what would be necessary to maintain certification. With ESEA Flexibility, the administration has added layers to improve teacher quality by requiring that states adopt teacher evaluation systems that incorporate ...
Nov 30, 2018 · This new bi-partisan law, dubbed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), fundamentally altered and expanded the federal government’s role in education. The centerpiece of the law was the requirement that states, as a condition of accepting federal funds, establish academic standards to guide their curricula and adopt a testing regime that was ...
To top. Short Summaries. A summary for parents - With passage of No Child Left Behind, Congress reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)--the principal federal law affecting education from kindergarten through high school.
Purpose. No Child Left Behind was a re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the primary federal law regulating K-12 education. The ESEA was first enacted in 1965 and re-authorized in 1994. The law includes Title I, the flagship program for disadvantaged students.
PUBLIC LAW 107–110—JAN. 8, 2002 115 STAT. 1425 Public Law 107–110 107th Congress An Act To close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
