The Nclb Act Is The Largest Intervention By The Federal...

The NCLB Act has become the largest intervention by the federal government. This act promises to improve student learning and to close the achievement gap between the white students and students of color. The law is aimed at having standardized test to measure student performance and quality of teacher. The Standardized exams are fully focused on reading and mathematics. This law characterizes an unequalled extension of the federal role into the realm of local educational accountability. High school graduation rates are also a requirement as an indicator of performance at secondary level. In low performing schools they get punished by receiving less funds and students have the choice to move to high performing school. The quality of our†¦show more content†¦This program is all about testing where even teachers are getting affected by the test results. Administrators and educators are being affected by the numbers that are being appeared in the test results. The policy state s that there will be more funding’s for schools when in the past year’s public schools have been struggling on keeping after school programs. There was cut downs made in public schools because of lack of funds. Programs that were affected were various types of tutoring, homework clubs, and so forth. Parents have been concerned on the unfairness of this policy when dealing with students with disability and those who English is their second language. The No Child Left Behind Act rewards schools when they have made the greatest progress in improving the achievement of disadvantaged students and if so they will be rewarded with the NCLB bonuses. This act also incorporates consequences for those who have failed to meet the regulations. The secretary of education will have permission to reduce federal funds available to states for administrative expenses if the state fails to meet their performance objectives and demonstrate results in academic achievement. Since the begin ning of the school year of 2003-2004 at least twenty states and a number of school districts have officially protested the NCLB Act, voting to withdraw from participation, to withhold local