no childleftbehind
TRANSCRIPT
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
Affected by this Act:
What students are taught
What tests they take
The training of teachers
The way money is generally spent on education
What do the States have to do?
Set targets for 2 catagories:
Overall achievementand
Specific Catagories of students, (ex. economically disadvantaged students)
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.
Emphasizes reading,writing and math
Teachers are forced to “teach to the test” and does not put a primary goal of learning
Measures educationalstatus and growth by ethnicity, bridging thegap between white andminority students
Ignores important subjects such as history, arts, and foreign languages
Focus on providingeducation to studentswith disabilities andlow-income families
States are able to generate their ownstandardized tests andmay make them easierby incorporating moremultiple choice questions
Annually, parents areprovided with a detailedreport of student achievement
Requires studentsto learn the samematerial at the samepace and take the same test
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.
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.