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This 3 page paper examines the No Child Left Behind Act, and argues that it will ultimately fail. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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2002 shouldnt surprise anyone. The question is whether the legislation is working or not. This paper answers several questions about NCLB with regard to the State of Illinois. Discussion While
the paper references the requested web sites, it should be noted that they are government web sites, which means that they convey the message the government wants the American people
to hear, namely that the NCLB act is working. Republicans will crow that its the greatest achievement in education in decades; Democrats say its underfunded, and in some cases completely
unfunded, and isnt worth the paper its printed on. In a political climate such as the one we endure today, which is poisonous and adversarial on both sides, its impossible
to discern the truth of any matter by relying on positions from either major party. We have to look elsewhere for an objective report. We will start with the website,
however, and the report for Illinois, which has slightly more information available than Indiana. The information presented on this web site shows that in fifth grade in Illinois, the students
made significant gains. These included the fact that "[F]ifth-grade mathematics proficiency increased by nine percentage points"; "[T]he black-white achievement gap in fifth-grade reading narrowed by four percentage points"; and "[T]he
black-white achievement gap in fifth-grade mathematics narrowed by seven percentage points" among others (NCLB making a difference in Illinois). The report goes on to say that nearly two-thirds of
Chicagos lowest-performing schools have experienced gains on reading scores "and fewer kids than ever before scoring among the worst" (NCLB making a difference in Illinois). In addition, "nearly 44 percent
of Chicago pupils are meeting national norms for reading" which is the highest number ever (NCLB making a difference in Illinois). Most promising of all, perhaps, is the fact that
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