Thesis Statement For No Child Left Behind
Introduction w/ Thesis Statement
The passing of the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) in 2002 changed the classroom for both teachers and students alike. This act was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act and within the changes made the federal government required that public schools in all states would annually test all students in grades 3 through 8 and once again in highschool in the subjects of math and reading (Ladd, 2017). While the motivation behind this reform was the hope that making school specific performances public would further improve each schools focus and productivity others believe that this act only makes teachers and other educators to to shift away from other important, but non-tested subjects such …show more content…
Level of Government and actors involved
State/Local Responsibility: includes public and private organizations establish schools and colleges including curriculum, requirements from the for students enrollment as well as graduation.
Sets majority of educational fund amounts roughly 92% of funds for elementary and secondary schools come from this level (Federal Role of Education, 2016)
Federal
contributes about 8% of funds (Federal Role of Education, 2016) includes Department of Education, Department of Health and Services' Head Start Program and Department of Agriculture's Lunch Program (Federal Role of Education, 2016).
Department of Education works hard to make sure that all funds regardless of where they come from are being used for the right reasons and where they can do the most good.
The federal governments role can be seen a more emergency role as it fills in the gaps when critical needs arise.
Political Concerns
There are 2 major concern with regards to education in 2017:
Student loans should taxes be raised in able to reduce interest rates on student loans?
Common Core should teachers test to each individual students potential or to uniform
The passing of the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) in 2002 changed the classroom for both teachers and students alike. This act was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education act and within the changes made the federal government required that public schools in all states would annually test all students in grades 3 through 8 and once again in highschool in the subjects of math and reading (Ladd, 2017). While the motivation behind this reform was the hope that making school specific performances public would further improve each schools focus and productivity others believe that this act only makes teachers and other educators to to shift away from other important, but non-tested subjects such …show more content…
Level of Government and actors involved
State/Local Responsibility: includes public and private organizations establish schools and colleges including curriculum, requirements from the for students enrollment as well as graduation.
Sets majority of educational fund amounts roughly 92% of funds for elementary and secondary schools come from this level (Federal Role of Education, 2016)
Federal
contributes about 8% of funds (Federal Role of Education, 2016) includes Department of Education, Department of Health and Services' Head Start Program and Department of Agriculture's Lunch Program (Federal Role of Education, 2016).
Department of Education works hard to make sure that all funds regardless of where they come from are being used for the right reasons and where they can do the most good.
The federal governments role can be seen a more emergency role as it fills in the gaps when critical needs arise.
Political Concerns
There are 2 major concern with regards to education in 2017:
Student loans should taxes be raised in able to reduce interest rates on student loans?
Common Core should teachers test to each individual students potential or to uniform