Presented By: Kealee Paulsen, Chelsea Varney, Zoë Brown, McKenna Marshall

1. No Child Left Behind Presented By:Kealee Paulsen, Chelsea Varney, Zoë Brown, McKenna Marshall

2. No Child Left Behind Standards- A required or agreed level of quality or attainment. High Stakes Testing- Atest with important consequences for the test taker. Passing has important benefits, such as a high school diploma, a scholarship, or a license to practice a profession. Failing has important disadvantages, such as being forced to take remedial classes until the test can be passed, not being allowed to drive a car, or not being able to find employment.

3. What is No Child Left Behind? Video Clip • Formed in 2001 • signed and enacted January of 2002 • Revision of Elementary and Secondary Education Act • Grades 3-8 Tested in Math and Reading every year

4. Pros of NLCB • Higher Enrollment in Mathematics Courses • Best 9-year-old scoring since 1971 • Academic Improvement in all subject categories • Legislation encouraged accountability to provide additional educational options • Measurement based performance assessment

5. Pros Continued • Negligible achievement gap between white and minority students • Each child receives: -Detailed report cards explaining AYP performance -Recommended paraprofessional or parental involvement -Preferred line of curriculum -Instruction practice

6. Pros Continued • Focus on students from low income groups • Focus on children with disabilities • Increased responsibility towards ethnic subgroups. • Improved instruction and classroom practices • Scope for more parent involvement • Funding for school technology

7. Cons of NLCB • Teaching to the test: • “Focusing narrowly on the precise skills and information students need to do well on the exam.” (Koch) • Most immediate effect of NCLB • Little room for Creative, In-depth Teaching • “Drill and Practice” Exercises only • Ignoring importance of passion for learning and celebration of individual talent • Silent Influence that other subjects aren’t important • Multiple choice test only • No research completed to prove learning

8. Cons Continued • Funding can be taken away • Takes away connections to Student Experience • Little meaning to Students • Variability in State Standards • Narrows view of knowledge • Social Studies and Science taught less = less important • Achievement gap between High/Low achieving schools

9. Cons Continued • Neglect Student Needs • Loophole of Student information being public • Reduced school control over curriculum • Incomplete measure of student understanding • Bilingual education as pedagogical goal absent • Block grants assist academic achievement of language minority student • Little attention to ethnic & language minorities

10. AYP • Adequate Yearly Progress • All public schools are required to administer a standardized test annually • Within a content area: school and district AYP combines… • Student Performance • 95% Student Participation • School Progress Over Time

11. AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) Each state shall: • Develop &implement a statewide accountability system • effective in ensuring all local educational agencies, public elementary schools and public secondary schools make adequate yearly progress

12. AYP And Accountability • Accountability: • Schools must test every student in math and reading in grades 3-8 and once in high school • Scores are reviewed annually, and schools are expected to make adequate yearly process (AYP)

13. AYP Continued • Consequences for not making AYP: • Year 1: none • Year 2: in need of improvement; 2 year improvement plan must be developed • Year 3: school offers students the option to transfer and supplemental education services • Year 4: corrective action; replacing staff, new curricula, etc. • Year 5: restructuring; plan for an alternative governance arrangement

14. Race to the Top • A $4.35 billion United States Department of education contest • Taking place of no child left behind • Created to spur innovation and reforms • local districts K-12 education (5-17year olds) • Funded by ED recovery act • Announced by Obama and secretary of education in July of 2009 • Promotes charter schools and privatization of education

15. Race to the Top • State applications for funding were scored on criteria adding up to 500 points, including: • Great Teachers and Leaders (138 points) • State Success Factors (125 points) • Standards and assessments (70 points) • General Selection Criteria (55 points) • Turning Around the Lowest-Achieving Schools (50 points) • Data Systems to support Instruction (47 points)

16. Race to the Top • States were eligible for different funding award brackets depending on their share of the federal population of children between the ages of 5-17. • Delaware $100 million • Tennessee $500 million • District of Columbia $75 million • Florida $700 million • Georgia $400 million • Hawaii $75 million • Maryland $250 million • Massachusetts $250 million • New York $700 million • North Carolina $400 million • Ohio $400 million • Rhode Island $75 million

17. Race to the Top • Common Criticisms • Tests are inaccurate way to measure teachers • Imposes federal control on state schools • High-stakes testing is unreliable • Charter schools weaken public educations • Federal government should not influence local schools

18. Works Cited • "What the No Child Left Behind Law Means for Your Child." GreatSchools. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.greatschools.org/improvement/quality-teaching/61-no-child-left-behind.gs>. • PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/nochild/>. • "Pros and Cons of NCLB." Pros and Cons of NCLB. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www.carleton.edu/departments/educ/vote/pages/Pros_and-Cons.html>. • Koch, Janice. Teach. Student ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2012. Print. • "Beyond the Playing Field." Teaching Tolerance 2012: 30-33. Web. 01 Oct. 2012. • "Adequate Yearly Progress - Stronger Accountability - No Child Left Behind - ED.gov." Adequate Yearly Progress - Stronger Accountability - No Child Left Behind - ED.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2012. <http://www2.ed.gov/nclb/accountability/ayp/edpicks.jhtml>. • http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pros-and-cons-of-the-no-child-left-behind-act.html • <http://www.edweek.org/media/racetoppointssystem.pdf> • <http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/fact-sheet-race-top>