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Solution #2 No Child Left Behind Political Reform No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) was the US Congress Act that amended the Elementary and Secondary Education to focus its efforts toward disadvantaged students. The supplement to Title 1 Education Act of 1965, NCLB focuses the reform through assessment based achievements to obtain federal grant funding for public education per basic academics. This reform focuses on student achievements in K-12 grades.(Dee & Jacob, 2011) Each state is…

ESSA: Empty Promises or Great Hopes The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to reform education policies to make all students have equal opportunities. ESSA expands the government's power in the education system and promises to focus more on the student rather than standardized tests. However, not all students are being treated the way the Act specifies and schools are still struggling with funding that could be dropped.…

Is education important in order to be successful in life? Is the “No Child Left Behind Act” the cause of the education system breakdown? Most students can agree that the education system is not what it used to be. I can still remember when my teacher was able to discuss multiple subjects at the same time. As of today, students that graduate high school find it very difficult to graduate College. Since the “No Child Left behind Act” students are facing many obstacles in order to become College…

studying in different ways. To standardize all kids, young or old, into the category of technological learning only would be an issue. Take a look back at one of the largest standardizations in all of the United States’ educational history: No Child Left Behind. This was proposed on George W. Bush 's third day of office, and passed with complete bipartisan support. This raised the yearly number of tests that a student in America has to take, going from roughly six per year all the way up to…

Protests have manifested around the nation. “Stop Common Core” signs surround American schools. Thousands of students opt out of state tests. Political candidates gain support for trashing Common Core. These indicators reveal the obvious hate of the new high level standards Common Core places on students. Although common core is often viewed as detrimental by both students and teachers alike, common core is actually beneficial on the whole and effectively ameliorates students’ learning…

Public Education is a widespread way of providing education to citizens of a country. The main features of such an education is that this is a relatively cheap to obtain such an education if compared to the private education. Furthermore, Public Education starts from primary schools to the Post Doc Schools. This increases the overall scope of Public Education. It is essential to note that education is basically the foundation of almost all great things, including the emergence of the United…

Truthfully, the effects of high-stakes testing may be evident in the morale of teachers and schools, but the evidence of this testing is most evident in the students the testing was designed to help? Has Texas seen an increase in student achievement in all areas, not just state mandated testing? In 2002, President George Bush, speaking in Hamilton High School, Hamilton, Ohio, made the following statement in regards to NCLB legislation passed months earlier. “We 've got large challenges here in…

Dr. David Bateman was very knowlegable about many aspects of Special Education Services. He was energetic and passionate anpit sharing his knowledge to teacher and parents who work with children with special needs. Dr. Bateman addressed the different possible accomadations that can be made to best support a child with various needs. A child may need an Individualized Education Plan or a 504 plan depending on the child’s needs. I really appreciated how Dr. Bateman expressed the importance…

intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.” In 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act was initiated and mandated annual testing in all 50 states. Since then, the U.S. dropped from 18th in the world in math with a similar decline in science. Standardized testing has been a topic of conversation since the beginning of No Child Left Behind, and it needs to be solved. It affects teachers and students alike. Some believe that it is necessary for…

When people hear the word Standardized test they typically think of a very long test that is probably not worth taking. In this generation, testing has become a more common to test a child’s academic levels. When teachers are told to prepare kids for these standardized tests they teach to the test, not to other knowledge children might need to know. Testing in general is used to show what knowledge a person has learned throughout a period of time. In most cases testing is pushed upon children.…