Is the NCLB Act restraining

America from going above and beyond?

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• 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

• Positives:–Better education for all–Students working harder– Closing the achievement gap

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• 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

• Many different points of view• Very controversial• Good changes in motion

Conclusion

• 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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