Education the No Child Left Term Paper

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For the at-risk students that NCLB was supposed to help, this could actually make their educational situation much worse.

As a consequence, the National Education Association has proposed a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 2007 as an alternative to the rigid, punitive, and unscientific methods of NCLB (ESEA, 2006; Crawford, 2004). While the ESEA summary does include some of the same elements that are present in NCLB -- such as accountability standards -- it does so without the agreed upon flaws of the current law. The overarching purpose of the ESEA is to ensure that all necessary resources are available for educators, that the achievement gap can be closed quickly, that students leave schools with the skills the 21st century demands, and that educators and students will have more enthusiasm for the educational process (ESEA, 2006).
These goals ask a lot of a single piece of legislation, as well as the schools that will have to implement them. However, the ESEA reauthorization will not limit state and local authority, as does NCLB, therefore giving individual school districts greater flexibility to use methods and techniques that are most effective in their particular situation. The ESEA may not be the final solution for improving education, but it is an appropriate step away from NCLB toward a functional national education system......

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