No Child Left Behind

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well as many provisions for everything from materials and text books to
maintenance and construction of school buildings. In 1994, improving America’s Schools Act was made an amendment of the ESEA.
Because the No Child Left Behind Act is a reauthorization of the ESEA it retains the ESEA’s prior frame work of standards and assessments. The law’s main purpose is to close the achievement gap in our nation through accountability, research-based instruction, flexibility and options for parents. This law will affect education from kindergarten through high school. NCLB has established new ground rules requiring the nation’s public schools to be carefully evaluated. The results of these evaluations must be relayed to parents and the general public in the form of a school focused report card. Any school that fails to meet the increase in test score requirements may be labeled as “failing”. Although opponents of NCLB believe that this failing label may be inaccurate they also consider the way in which any given state implements the new law can have a large impact on NCLB’s impact.
The accountability and assessment provisions of the No Child Left Behind Law are key and bear the most weight when it comes to labeling schools as failing. The accountability sections refer to those parts of the legislation anticipated to hold public school educators directly responsible for the success of their instructional efforts. Therefore those who are operating our public schools will have to provide convin...