No Child Left Behind

NCLB

Introduction

This report looks at No Child Left Behind (NCLB ) and its relationship to African-American students , along with its effects on the Las Vegas schools . After establishing background on general NCLB goals , the report moves to address specific s of concern . NCLB is an ambitious federal program that went into effect fairly recently , and includes a far-reaching and multifaceted proposed solution to educational problems by emphasizing school accountability in an effort to reform and improve the educational system in the U .S , as well as other goals and reflective

principles . The program embraces many different aspects of the educational process , from teacher qualification to a new set of standardized tests designed to gauge the effective presentations of individual schools by state and national standards

Background

NCLB went into effect after its implementation only in the last few decades , and marked a turning point in the reform of the domestic educational system . The main goals of the program are to improve academic achievement levels in students across the board and universally . A more ambitious stated goal is to bring about change in the way people

think of the educational process and the culture of education President George W . Bush

describes this law as the `cornerstone of my administration ' Clearly our children are our

future , and , as President Bush has expressed , `Too many of our neediest children are

being left behind (NCLB , 2007 . Therefore , the program generally represents a

theoretical new attention being placed in the old idea of education as...