No Child Left Behind Overview: Term Paper

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The renewal of emphasis on properly trained and equipped teachers and the dangling carrot of greater funds to achieve such an aim is surely enticing for any student interested in academic success. And yet the broad focus on test results, though perhaps inevitable and the sole method of any objective monitoring, promises to result in better trained teachers handcuffed by state mandated lesson plans. These state mandated lesson plans are in turn narrowly tailored to achieve impersonal federal academic goals not best suited for each student.

Personal Perspective:

From a personal perspective, it appears clear that the system has not been improved all that much. While the total amount of money being spent on the program might be impressive, each individual school will not receive enough to make any difference in their ability to be more discriminate with teacher hires and/or teacher training.

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The strict focus on achieving certain numbers on test results leaves little room for important, yet off-topic, class tangents. Moreover, the very slight appeal of public school teaching that existed must surely have been eroded even more at the prospect of increased and inflexible state and federal standards.

Effect of Law:

NPR reported in 2005 that "nearly four years after the No Child Left Behind Act took effect, the nation's urban school districts have shown little benefit from the law." But U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says that the law wasn't being fully implemented in all 50 states until 2006. The daily experience of teachers and students has changed, but whether that will ultimately yield any results is too soon….....

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