HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION-NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

History of American Education-No Child Left Behind

History of American Education-No Child Left Behind

Abstract

Jonathan Kozol takes the book reader on a excursion to six poor built-up American groups between 1988 and 1990 to analyze the inequalities in their school's amenities, assets, and teachers. His documentation shows how less is expended on scholars who need more informative possibilities in alignment obtain an identical education. In alignment to better realise the author's declarations of President Bush No Child Left Behind program remedies, it is significant to talk about some of his findings.

Outline

The author recounts East St. Louis as a very dark community on the Mississippi floodplain.

The school structures are in need of foremost fixes and renovation.

Educators and legislatures acquiesce that they desire to advance scholar achievement.

He contends that if the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the checking regime it has unfurled is our best answer to what ails segregated, low-income schools, we-or rather the young children in those schools-are in trouble.

answer hubs on double-checking that poor schools' grades of state funding are identical to or higher than schools in rich communities.

Introduction

The author recounts East St. Louis as a very dark community on the Mississippi floodplain. The air stunk of flaming rubbish and stinking chemicals from close by industries. Residents are revealed to raw waste, toxic waste, and the hazards of lead poisoning.

Sister Julia of the Sisters of Mercy proceeds with Kozol on his meetings with some East St. Louis children. The children's' narratives recount an 11 year vintage young female being raped, killed, and her body being got relieve of between the new and vintage school.  Sister Julia and Kozel depart the district before dark because St. Louis taxies deny to arrive to East St. Louis after dark. (Kozol 1991 p.11-14)

Discussion

Kozel comes back with a juvenile reporter Sarif Ahmed of the Post-Digest to enquire the neighborhood. He finds very dark young children dwelling in “Third World” situation enclosed every day by “all the poorest things in America- wagering, liquor, tobacco and toxic fumes, waste, waste disposal, and prostitution”(Kozol 1991 p.20). The district has the largest fetal death rate, most premature beginnings, and is third amidst infant killings in Illinois. Children who need dental care bear in agony for weeks. Poor nutrition and need of childhood immunizations are origin for alarm. The poor children's worry from dwelling in a high-risk murder and likely riot zone is very real.

The school structures are in need of foremost fixes and renovation. On his first visit to the locality Sister Julia said that the new school was going under from the tension of the top covering being too heavy. (Kozol 1991 p.14). Martin Luther King Junior High, as asserted by the Post-Dispatch had to be evacuated for the second time in the jump of 1989 because of waste fumes, backed-up lavatories, and waste in the bathrooms, kitchen, and basement. (Kozol 1991 p.23)

In his meetings with scholars and managers the inquiry of inequalities in categories, educators, and ...