News and World Report sat down with Senator Lamar Alexander, chair of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ( HELP) Committee to talk about the re-authorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and higher education. Here are the ins and outs of the drawn out process Congress engaged in to make the No Child Left Behind a thing of the past.
What took so long to dismantle No Child Left Behind?
#GEOGRAPHY TESTS GIVEN TO TEENS VOX UPDATE#
Considering that No Child Left Behind had needed an update since 2007, it is shocking how long it took to sign this new law. The law also means federal grant funding is opened for states and local school districts to support music education programs and further train music teachers.ĮSSA has been a long time coming. The Every Student Succeeds Act also lists music as a portion of a well-rounded education and gives it more support than previous policies when it comes to access and funding. This means that test scores are no longer the sole deciding factor for school performance. Vox.com notes that other factors will be taken into account, such as “parent involvement, student surveys, measures of school safety, or even whether students have “ grit.” States will have the ability to individually appraise how well its teachers are doing performance wise.Īnother alteration under the new law will allow states “to come up with their way to determine the quality of their local schools.” That changes as well as how teacher performance is evaluated. That’s a major change as the federal government formerly dictated how states were to teach its students. No Child Left Behind is no more as the new bill makes major changes to federal education policy. How and why did this happen? Read on to find out about the concerns that kept Congress from coming to an agreement on the old No Child Left Behind-and to find out more about the new law that could take education reform in a new direction.Īt the end of December 2015, President Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. Eight years past its expiration date, No Child Left Behind is finally gone.
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