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No Child
Left Behind Act
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The No
Child Left Behind Act
is described under ten main title headings as shown in the
following table.
2002 No
Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) Title I: Improving the Academic Achievement of
the Disadvantaged
Title II: Preparing, Training, and
Recruiting High Quality Teachers and Principals
Title III: Language Instruction for Limited
English Proficient and Immigrant Students
Title IV: 21st century schools
Title V: Promoting Informed Parental Choice
and Innovative Programs
Title VI: Flexibility And Accountability
Title VII: Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska
Native Education
Title
VIII: Impact Aid Program
Title IX: General Provisions
Title X: Repeals, Redesignations, and
Amendments to other Statutes
2002 No
Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
No Child
Left Behind Act
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Child Left Behind Act
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No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 1: The No Child Left
Behind Act implements President Bush's explicit
commitment to ensuring that every child can read by the
third grade. The NCLB provides federal funds to improve
teacher quality, English language proficiency,
technology, after school activities and pre-school
support.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 2:
The No Child Left Behind Act is a major revision
of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and
designed to "close the achievement gap with
accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no
child is left behind".
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Left Behind Act
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3: The NCLB creates
strong standards in each state for what every child
should know and learn in reading and math in grades 3-8.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 4: The NCLB requires
accountability for results. The progress and achievement of every
child will be measured on a yearly basis and detailed on annual
report cards.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 5: The annual report cards will
help parents to measure their child's progress in key subjects and
assess school performance and evaluate the quality of their child's
school.
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Left Behind Act
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6: Assessment objectives and results
will ensure that no group is left behind regardless of
poverty, disability, race and ethnicity and limited
English proficiency
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 7: The NCLB focuses
on providing proven, effective, research-based teaching
methods that will most help children to learn.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 8: Every local school district
will receive the freedom to target programs that will have the most
positive impact on the students they teach.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 9: A new Early
Reading First program is introduced to support early
language skills and the literacy of preschool-age
children, especially those from low-income families.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 10: The NCLB provides
funds for teacher quality programs to improve teacher
training and funds for hiring new teachers.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 11: Schools that fail
to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) to achieve
statewide proficiency goals will be subject to
corrective action and restructuring measures to help
them meet the required standards
No Child
Left Behind Act
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12: Schools that meet,
or exceed, AYP standards or close achievement gaps will
be eligible for State Academic Achievement Awards.
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No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 13: A new program will help to
improve Bilingual Education by helping students to learn English and
reach the same high academic standards as other students.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 14: The NCLB aims to improve the
Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program bringing education into the 21st
century.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 15: NCLB provisions simplify
federal support to allow students to change schools if their school
is deemed 'persistently dangerous'.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 16: The No Child Left
Behind Act is aimed at measuring students and schools in
comparison to the performance of students throughout the
country in the annual testing process
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 17: The NCLB law mandates that all
teachers who teach core academic subjects must be highly
qualified.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 18: Elementary
teachers entering the teaching profession must possess
full state certification, have earned at least a
bachelor's degree, and have passed a state test
demonstrating subject knowledge and teaching skills in
areas such as reading, writing, and math.
No Child
Left Behind Act
Facts - 19: New teachers in
middle and secondary schools must also have full state
certification, a bachelor's degree, and have passed a
rigorous state test in the subjects taught or have
successfully completed a graduate degree, or advanced
certification in each subject taught.
No Child
Left Behind Act
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20: There have been strong criticisms for
the "test, blame and punish" legacy of No Child Left
Behind (NCLB) act.
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Left Behind Act
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21: On July 16, 2015 a
bill called the 'Every Child Achieves Act' was approved
by the U.S. Senate to afford states more flexibility in
regards to setting their own respective standards for
measuring school as well as student performance.
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