NCLB

No Child Left Behind

[Name of Student]

No Child Left Behind

Introduction

The topic under study relates to an act; “No Child Left Behind”, according to which, the language standards in regular education should be such that is understandable by students. The topic revolves around the set of state standards that relates to NCLB, its objectives, and restate of the selected standards to the student common language.

The act; No Child Left behind (NCLB) provides an indication to teachers to adopt a language that is easily understandable by students. A Democratic congress initiated this act that also ensures the protection of teachers from issues such as poor performance, making sure that students achieve effective learning in an ideal environment, is the basic purpose of No Child Left Behind.

Discussion

Set of State Standards

The Set of State Standards that I select is about the knowledge of students that they must possess for reading, mathematics and Science. For this set of standards, as also suggested by NLCB, grade level 3 to 8 required to be tested on a periodic basis. The law also required every state to develop or adopt an assessment, to measure students' academic performance (Ravitch, 2000). Furthermore, it is mandatory for schools to test at least 95% of their students, including at least 95% from different segments. Schools does segmentation on the basis of Low-Income, Disable students, students with lack of proficiency in english and students from diverse cultural background. Moreover, States also require to develop benchmark for schools that they should meet in reading, math, and eventually science.

Objectives of No Child Left Behind

There are a number of objectives of NCLB (Hirsch, 1996). These are mentioned as follows:

Increasing the performance of students of all the public schools academically

To provide effective learning environment for the students

To provide a chance to eligible students to get a transfer to better schools

To provide a chance to low performing schools to perform better

Create an opportunity for all students to have an early learning environment

Enable students to gain proficiency in mathematics, reading and Science

Bridge the gap between the white and the black in reading and mathematics

To academic performances of all the states and districts

Require schools to improve performance and ultimately provide quality education to all.

Require schools to adopt practices based on scientific research

Achieve high literacy at an early age

More focus on areas related to economics.

Ten Selected Objectives

Increasing the performance of students of all the public schools academically

To provide effective learning environment for the ...