No Child Left Behind Takes The Failing Grade!
In 2002, the Federal government, by Act of Congress, enacted a controversial No Child Left Behind Act(NCLB) . This program was planned to improve the primary and secondary school student’s knowledge, chiefly in the areas of English and math. Although this is an admirable objective, the build of the plan has hit a brick wall to bring the preferred results. Many educators have laid the fault on the method laid out inside the No Child Left Behind plan. With its concentration squarely on English and math, scholars, teachers and administrators confront a task which imposes punishments if the goals are not achieved.
These punishments use the form of rescinded Federal funding, which produces a catch- 22 kind of predicament. Even the funding which is appropriated has not been received by the towns. This has been standard exercise since the inception of No Child Left Behind. In 2002, about$ 4. 2 billion bucks which was appropriated in no way arrived at the states. In 2007, this money gap grew to an astonishing$ 14 billion dollars! To add to the monetary woes of the school districts, states all around the nation were suffering funding shortfalls in revenues, due to the state of the general financial system.
This resulted in many states finding it necessary to generate budget cuts in several areas, such as, you guessed it, education! While schools are demanded to administer standard tests in English and also math, the tests protocol of No Child Left Behind does not stretch to other courses. Some schools were compelled to drop alternative subjects from their curriculums if they were to sustain the Federal money. This doesn’t seem like a beneficial overhaul of our academic organization.