Change Of Heart On No Child Left Behind

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Change of Heart on No Child Left Behind


In the article Change of Heart on No Child Left Behind written by Karen MacPherson, a staff member of the Post-Gazette National Bureau in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it relates how the No Child Left Behind Act is impacting our schools across the nation. This article draws attention to the list of doubters; politicians, administrators, teachers, and parents, who have been left in the wake of the No Child Left Behind Act.
MacPherson recounts the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002 as he sat in an old, jaded school desk in an Ohio high school. This law is, by far, the most sweeping educational reform regulation in four decades in the United States. This legislation passed with flying colors through both houses in Congress to ensure that all students would receive a quality education in America’s public schools. This law builds upon the substructure of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It is a potent combination of resources, new requirements, and incentives; and it poses weighty challenges for all states.
MacPherson narrates there is an expanding group of concerned citizens who believe the legislation is failing to provide sufficient federal funding and thus falls short in meeting the needs of the students to provide a quality education. The author relates that Senator John F. Kerry, presidential hopeful, D-Mass., is one of these concerned citizens who have had a change of heart. He is also one of the eighty-seven senators who originally voted the legislation into law in January of 2002.

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The author attests that the No Child Left Behind Act was originally addressed as a landmark endeavor to raise the standards for all students in America while closing the gap between higher-scoring students and lower-scoring students. MacPherson explains that all states are now mandate...