• Affects teachers and students• Trying to give everyone an equal
chance to learning material• Positive and negative impacts
Why is the NCLB Act
important?
•Affects everyone across the U.S.
•4 Main points to help better the education system
• A federal law• President George W. Bush: 2001•Very controversial issue in Education
Background Info.
• Standards-based education reform– Math– Reading
• NCLB requires that 100% of students in a school must reach the same set of statestandards by the year 2014.
• Stronger accountability for results• More freedom for the states and communities• Proven education methods• More choices for parents
4 Main Points
Impact on K-12
Education•Interview of students and staff members
•Positive and negative effects
• Negatives:–Teachers have to dumb down
lessons–Don’t get to teach what they
want–Have to follow certain guidelines–Students aren’t able to go above
and beyond on their own–Teachers are limited to what
they can teach which causes students to be limited to what they are learning.
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• President Obama's support• Increased budget• Looking for
change
What is being done to address
the issue?
–High bar/high standards–Reward the hard work and growth–Be more flexible with how states and districts get to the high bar.
Changes to be made
• Behrent, Megan. "Reclaiming Our Freedom to Teach: Education Reform in the Obama Era." Harvard Educational Review. 79.2 (2009): 240-246.
• Harriman, Nancy E. "Perceptions of Students and Educators on the
Impact of No Child Left Behind: Some Will and Some Won't." Rural Special Education Quarterly. 24.1 (Winter 2005): 64-9.
• Cornish, Audie. "NPR." NPR.org. National Public Radio, 02/06/2010. Web. 24 Mar 2010. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123439504&ft=1&f=1013>.
• Lewis, Beth. "NCLB- No Child Left Behind." About.com:Elementary Education. About.com, n.d. Web. 24 Mar 2010. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123439504&ft=1&f=1013>.
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