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No Child Left Behind

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 was established by President Bush and passed into law on January 8, 2002. The NCLB requires the states to give annual testing, "specifies a method for judging school effectiveness, sets a timeline for progress and establishes specific consequences in the case of failure"(Wenning, et. al. 2000). Because the federal have not set up federal guidelines for the testing practices for the state, many states set up their own test and how they are given to students. It was established to reform the education system, and this was the most radical change that had taken place to the Elementary and Secondary Act(ESEA) of 1965 since it was created. The NCLB act changed the government's role in K-12 education because it was focusing on the school's success as it measured the student's achievements (www.state.nj.us/education/grants/nclb/). The NCLB help unite all of the people in America because of its revolutionary idea: "every child can learn" which would not allow the American people to settle for a public school system that would only educate some of the students and not all of them(www.fldoe.org/nclb/).

The NCLB is about to fail because of the Reading First portion that was added to it because it has not not improved the students' reading comprehension "which was mandated by Congress and carried out by the Department of Education's research arm"(Dillion, 2008). This act has been in pratice for five years, and it is about to be burried because of its disappointing results on NAEP test (McKenzie, 2007). The experts are saying that the NCLB act will have to be killed because it is too corrupt and dhas too many flaws in order for it to be corrected. They are saying that the act will have to be rewritten in order for it to include all of the students and not just a select few (McKenzie, 2006).

REFERENCES

No Child Left Behind(n.d) Retrieved October 9, 2008, from Flordia Department of Education Website: http://www.fldoe.org/nclb/

New Jersey No Child Left Behind(n.d) Retrieved October 9, 2008, from State of New Jew Jersey Department of Education Website: http://www.state.nj.us/education/grants/ncbl/

Dillion, Sam(2008).An Initiative on Reading Is Rated Ineffective. Retrieved October 9, 2008, from http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/education/02reading.html?ei=5087&en=7c271...

McKenzie, Jamie(2006). Killing NCLB in 2007: 17 Reasons Why NCLB Must Go. Retrieved October 9, 2008, from http://www.nochildleft.com/2006/sept06killing.html

McKenzie, Jamie(2007). The Last Work Retrieved October 9, 2008, from http://www.nochildleft.com/2007/may07.html

Wenning, Richard; Herdman, Paul A.; Smith, Nelson; McMahon, Neal; Washington, Kadesha(2000). No Child Left Behind: Testing, Reporting, and Accountability. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-2/behind.html/