Shan tel Mayberry 7 th period Current Event Outline I. What is NCLB? A. New education law made to 1. improve academic levels of minorities and all students 2. improve teacher qualification II. Purpose of NCLB (according to the educational institute of South Dakota) A.
Ensure that all children have 1. Fair 2. equal 3. Significant opportunity to a high quality education.
B. Meet educational needs of low achieving children. Close the achievement gap between high and low scoring children. Hold schools and local educational agencies accountable for improving the academic achievement of all students. E. Provide children an enriched and accelerated educational program F.
Affording parents substantial and meaningful ways to participate in their children’s education. III. Provisions of the Bill (according to Mary lord from u. s. news and world report; feburary, 4, 2002) A. Testing 1.
State must create and give annual standard reading test in grades 3 rd -8 th starting in 2005 -2006. 2. Reports will be given to educators and parents to see how kids and schools are doing. B. Accountability 1. Scores must show annual improvement and all students are to reach proficiency in 12 years.
2. Schools that are behind will receive $1, 000 per child, if don’t improve after 3 years. Child can transfer to another school. C.
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School Choice: Public Education vs. Home School When Americans think of education, they almost automatically think of public education. Through the years, it is slowly changing. Many parents today are deciding to home-school their children. Although most people think that a public education is better, most statistics and facts tend to show that home schooling is beneficial in more ways. It is ...
Reading 1. Will triple federal funding for reading programs, they only can be spend it on proven programs. 2. Require annual reading test for academic reasons. Teacher quality (according to educational institute of Iowa) 1. must put a highly qualified teacher in every class by 20052.
reduce class size if not assigned a high quality teacher IV. Affects this has on Dubuque (according to Des Moines AP) A. City wide watch list 1. a warning 2. doesn’t mean schools are failing 3.
fail to meet state requirements 4. testing procedures are not funded. Schools on area watch list 1. Senior high school 2.
Hempstead high school 3. Central 4. Washington junior high 5. Jefferson junior high 6. Fulton elementary 7.
Table mound elementary 8. Prescott elementary. Also All students in the state are to be or above proficient level by 2014. D. Most schools were on list because they failed to test at least 95% of their students.
E. Academic levels should score at an average of 95% per school (No child left behind Cartoons) thanks to Jerry King. My opinions A. area schools are in need but not as much B. don’t agree with the testing procedures 1. may lead to going to school longer 2.
may case many students to drop out. this might get students to take education more seriously VI. Conclusion A. So as you can see No Child Left Behind 1. can benefit students 2.
help educational levels 3. higher reading levels. But can also 1. cause shock to students 2.
make learning at a faster rate harder 3. cause students to drop out.
