No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

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No Child Left Behind The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was signed into law in 2002. It was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. It established a 12-year period of reforms. Each school was to reduce how many students tested below the proficient level (Richards, 2002). This bill increased federal spending and intended to decrease racial achievement differences by setting higher standards, emphasizing testing, and offering incentives and penalties for states that met or fell short of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards set in place by NCLB (No state left alone: time to limit federal role in education, 2012). Under the act, the failure to meet the Adequate Yearly Progress standards or show improvement in any area for two consecutive years causes the entire school to be subject to penalties. So if, for example, students in an…show more content…
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