No Child

Left
BehindBrittany
Class 203

The history of big education reform starts with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, put forth by Lyndon Johnson in
1965. This was the biggest education reform by the federal legislation. The act granted funds for elementary and secondary
education schools and promised equal access to these schools for children. The goal of this act was to greatly shorten
achievement gaps. This act got reauthorized about every five years. In 2001 the No Child Left Behind Act was put forth by
George Bush. The bill called for an increased role and funding of the federal government. The bill was meant to increase
achievement in poor and minority students. The act created new measures to hold schools accountable for progress. It
expanded the role of standardized testing in grades 3 through 8. The scores were broken down by poverty, race, ethnicity,
disability, and english proficiency. Every school had to show adequate yearly progress to keep up. The NAEP keeps up with
the standards and makes sure they are being held high enough for students. The act also prohibits nation testing and allows
states to create the testing on their own. All students under the act are expected to exceed the state standards put forth by the
year 2014 in the math and reading areas. The goal of the act was to close achievement gaps the government had recognized.
The act is supposed to create equal, fair, and significant opportunities for receiving a high quality education. The U.S.
department of education has four pillars that they found important for this act; Accountability, flexibility, research based
education, and parent options. Another current reauthorization that came forward is the ESSA, or Every Student Succeeds
Act, by President Obama in 2015. The ESSA shrinks the federal government's role unlike most acts in the chain of events.
The act maintains the same standards for testing implemented but takes away the accountability portion from the federal

government and grants it to states. This currently stands as the most recent act for the United States.

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Contact: Brittany Zeigler
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