No Child Left Behind..

This is a part of an essay that I wrote last semester on "NCLB", It has some good information so I figured I would do those of you who are doing school assesment a favor and post it on here :)

No Child Left Behind was created with one specific goal in mind, “to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments and to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind” (TDOE 4). Some of the governing principles and goals considered when constructing the NCLB program were increasing morale by rewarding good progress and penalizing failure, increasing flexibility for schools, developing quality teachers, creating higher literacy scores by promoting reading, informing parents of their children’s progress, giving the parents and students choices, improving the English proficiency level of students lacking thereof, and focusing on successful methods of teaching. The goals include having all students proficient in reading and math by the 2013-2014 school year, starting with the 2013-2014 class, all students will enter into the fourth grade proficient in reading, all students will be proficient in English, all teachers will meet all requirements for teaching by the 2005-2006 school year, all schools will be a safe, drug free, learning atmosphere, and all students will graduate from high school (TDOE 4).