No Child Left Behind: Fair and Equal Education
dc.contributor.author | Hayes, Dania | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-02T20:59:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-02T20:59:14Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10484/12114 | |
dc.description.abstract | Education is a big part of every American citizen’s life because by law, we are all required to attend school till at least the age of sixteen(Bush). Education is a way in which to get better jobs and better access within society. Within the United States, taxpayers are required to support education by funding the public school system. Education is knowledge. Knowledge is power and for all these reasons, No Child Left Behind should be of importance to every student capable of understanding it, every parent with school age children, and every new or old teacher. No Child Left Behind has raised many questions and issues. Educators, government officials, and scholars have been working since the start of the law to figure out the answers. There are many problems with No Child Left Behind. For one, the law requires all students to meet the same standards when realistically due to finances, resources, and disabilities all students cannot meet the same standards. It has also proven very hard for researchers to empirically test the performance of No Child Left Behind because prior to the law there were not many schools who had accountability standards like those and so there is nothing to test it against. Over the last ten years testing has gotten a little bit better but is still concentrated in elementary education and not secondary education. No Child Left Behind was a new, revolutionary education reform law that had the potential to produce good results through it’s good motives, but fell short because there was too much focus on only two subject areas, math and reading, standardized tests, and the accountability of teachers. There was not enough focus on the children and how the new plan may affect them. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Kayla Siddell | en_US |
dc.subject | No Child Left Behind | en_US |
dc.subject | Education | en_US |
dc.title | No Child Left Behind: Fair and Equal Education | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.graduationmonth | December | en_US |
dc.date.published | 2015 | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Honors Diploma | en_US |
dc.description.department | Honors College | en_US |
dc.description.imprint | Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana State University | en_US |
dc.description.level | Undergraduate | en_US |
dc.description.note | Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages: 26p | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-06-02T14:14:16Z |
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