Criminal Justice System Pros And Cons

Adequacy: The NCLB have reduce the number of drop outs, increased graduation readiness and improved strategies for main stream students. However, it really not that adequate when comparing every state. First, states have the control of creating, assessing, monitoring and reporting progress on standardized testing. Therefore, each state’s test will be hard to compare against another because the expectations, difficulty level and conditions are different. Teachers are teaching students how to take tests because the pressure of children scoring in proficient or higher. Children won’t have an understanding of any material until they take higher level courses. Clubs and organizations are getting cut from school’s offering because the NCLB focus on the core subjects— English, Science, Reading and Math. This creates a disadvantage for students to become well rounded.
Cost-Benefit Efficiency: The budget is left to the states when producing the reports. If the state doesn’t show any progress toward proficiency, they can be punished with less funding, closure of schools or take over the districts. Therefore, states found a way to get around the criteria by lowering standards, reclassifying and fudging numbers on reports. This cause the money funded to districts to be in vain. There is no consistent mode to gage across the nation. The
Laws have been created for equality and are constantly adjusting. With the goal of chosing the achievement gap, The NCLB never address the barriers the children face when living in poverty or oppression. Disadvantage schools are already setup to fail because of the segregation and structural inequalities that goes far beyond the school. With a huge problem such as education system, it hard to make a difference with one person. Everyone has to be on the same page. It takes community involve and changing the way things are taught to get quality