3. We must make our kids smarter!
Math
English
Science
We can’t let the Russians beat us!
4. The Federal Government decides
to step in with the NCLB Act……
President Bush signs into law in 2002
and re-authorizes the
Elementary & Secondary Education Act
of 1965, signed by
President Lyndon Johnson in 1965
5. Affected by this Act:
What students are taught
What tests they take
The training of teachers
The way money is generally spent on education
6. What do the States
have to do?
Set targets for 2 catagories:
Overall achievement
and
Specific Catagories of students,
(ex. economically disadvantaged students)
7. Overall Achievement
This is determined by how the the students
perform on standardized tests
Tests are taken and compared by grade levels;
it does not track the same students the following
year to see if there was improvement.
10. Measures educational
status and growth by
ethnicity, bridging the
gap between white and
minority students
Ignores important
subjects such as
history, arts, and
foreign languages
11. Focus on providing
education to students
with disabilities and
low-income families
States are able to
generate their own
standardized tests and
may make them easier
by incorporating more
multiple choice
questions
12. Annually, parents are
provided with a detailed
report of student
achievement
Requires students
to learn the same
material at the same
pace and take the
same test
13. Where are we now?
The original goal of 100 percent
proficiency by the school year 2013-2014
is upon us. We are far from reaching
that goal.
14. Quote from June 20, 2013 newspaper:
No Child Left Behind Revisited
WASHINGTON (AP)-
Members of the Republican-led House education panel are
sending their rewrite of No Child Left Behind to the full
House for a vote. The House Education and the Workforce
Committee on Wednesday finished work on a rewrite of the
sweeping education law. In the revised version, states
would have more authority and Education Secretary Arne
Duncan and his successors would have less. The
Republican update, which was branded the Student
Success Act, would allow state and local school chiefs to
decide if students are being well served. Democrats on the
panel objected to the proposed revision, saying it shirks
Washington’s role in guaranteeing support for poor and
minority students.
