The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was passed in 2001 to increase accountability and improve public education outcomes, requiring annual student testing in reading and math with the goal of all students reaching proficiency by 2014. It affects teachers and students in grades K-12 and aims to promote equal education opportunities, but has been controversial with both positive and negative impacts debated. While it increased accountability and parental involvement, critics argue it led schools to focus too narrowly on test preparation and limited curriculum flexibility.

1. Children’s Rights/Decade for
Childhood: No Child Left Behind
(NCLB)
By
Kellee R. Smith
Group 1

2. CHART

3. Why is the NCLB
Important?
 Affects teachers and students
 Grades K-12
 Equal Education
-Mainstreaming
 Positive and Negative Impacts
 Accountability for results
 NCLB Goals that by 2013/2014, all students will test
at profiecent.

4. In the Beginning…
Passed by President George W. Bush and Ted
Kennedy in 2001
Federal Law
Controversial
Reading/Math…Later Science

5. Positives from NCLB
• Annual report card sent out annually to
parents about student’s progress.
• More options for parents to move their child
to better schools.
• Special needs are being taught the same
curriculum
• Closing achievement gap
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6. Negatives of NCLB
“Dumb Down” teaching-teaching to the test
Drill and Kill
Teachers are being limited to what they can
teach (students are being limited to what is
taught)
Underfunded
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7. Make You Say HMM
• FYI, “Immigrants and English Language
Learners need one to two years to develop
social language. In addition, to devlop
academic language, this takes between four to
nine years to develop” ( Cummins, 2000,
Pg.10).
• Your ELL students have 3 years before they
have to take the test.

8. It’s Showtime!
• Youtube.com/watch?v=LV7od-RU1Ju