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President George Bush's education bill the No Child Left Behind Act has been hailed by many as a success in the United States, but other see many flaws with the regime it creates. This 7 page paper considers the Act and if it could be successfully applied to the UK. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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potential and minimise any limitations or constraints that are within the educational system. To ensure that there are minimum levels of literacy and educational achievement any model that has worked
should be considered, as such it may be no coincidence that President Bushs No Child Left Behind Act may be seen as having potential is applied to the UK. This
link has been made recently by the Conservative party in their "No Child Left Behind: the way ahead" consultation document (Slater, 2002). There have been concerns regarding the
standards of literacy for some time, for example, in 2000 it was claimed by Chris Woodhead , the chief inspector for the Office for Standards in Education that nearly half
of all children left primary school without achieving the expected standard of literacy and 11 year old boys being singled out as the weakest achievement group (The Independent, 2000).
There have since been major advances with the literacy strategy and by 2002, out of twenty seven countries the UK is ranked eighth for the 15 - 16 year
old (St John-Brooks, 2002). In terms of science the story is even better with the UK ranked 2nd (St John-Brooks, 2002). However, despite the optimistic revulsion there is still concern.
Research conducted by universities into the level of literacy and numerously of their first year students has shown a decrease since 1991, despite increases in the grades of entrants (Hill,
2004). These falls may only be minimal in some area, but the most worrying problem may be more accurately seen not as general levels falling, but the few children that
slip through the gap and are failed by the educational system and the impact that this failure will have on their ability to work and achieve.
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