The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind) Assessment Requirements
One of the primary goals of Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind) (NCLB) Assessment Requirements is to provide high-quality content experts in the classroom. The National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform goes a step further by calling for teachers who also understand the developmental needs of the middle grades student and will center their instructional strategies on student needs.
The Title I section of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by NCLB, aims to help end the achievement gap by ensuring that all children meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards. Title I provides financial assistance through state educational agencies to local educational agencies and public schools with high numbers or percentages of children from low-income households.
According to the Harvard Civil Rights Project, NCLB has not yet made significant progress toward closing the achievement gap.1 Nonetheless, the intent of the Act is to provide qualified and caring teachers, high standards for all students, equal access for students with disabilities, and parental involvement as components of an educational system that will close the achievement gap by 2014.
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1 Jaekyung Lee, Tracking Achievement Gaps and Assessing the Impact of NCLB on the Gaps: An In-depth Look into National and State Reading and Math Outcome Trends (PDF; Outside Source). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Civil Rights Project, 2006, 5, 10.