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A 3 page research paper that offers a summation of the opinions expressed in educational literature concerning the NCLB. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Act (NCLB) of 2001 (NCLB, 2002). This is a comprehensive reform that was intended as a reform that would make schools and teachers accountable for student performance and close the
achievement gap between mainstream and minority students. The question that arises is whether or not the NCLB has been successful, which is what the government asserts (Hoff, 2008). How do
educators assess the NCLB? Chapman (2007) has indicated how NCLB has radically altered the basic framework of the public school system, which is clearly one of the intentions of
this legislation as it opens public education to competition with a marketplace that includes traditional public schools, but also private schools, charter schools and for-profit schools. Fuller, et al (2006)
conducted an evaluation of the effects of NCLB and found that the achievement gains that were evident in the late 1990s, as the gap between socioeconomic and racial groups improved
have, for the most part, disappeared. The instruments used to come to this conclusions were drawn from National Assessment of Educational Progress and state data (Fuller, et al, 2006).
Eferakorho (2006) verifies the conclusions of Fuller, et al, as this evaluation of NCLB, which castigates the federal government as creating legislative requirements that hamper, rather than help minority students
achieve parity with the academic achievement of the white mainstream. Lyons (2006), based on his evaluation of the NCLB on the level of funding provided by this legislation for
disadvantaged students and finds that only a modest level of monetary resources are allocated to schools for this purpose, which leaves many disadvantaged student without Title I services. Based on
this assessment, Lyons (2006) calls on the government to provide equity in funding between the Title I and non-Title I schools. Educational literature, as a whole, appears to support the
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