No Child Left Behind to Every Student Succeeds Act to... What's next???
NCLB to ESSA to ??? In 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was signed into law by President Bush. This law was to ensure that all schools were accountable for students’ learning and achievement. The purpose of NCLB was to ensure that all students got an equal shot at education. All students were given an equal opportunity in education regardless of their race or disability. According to Krause (2012), with a name like “No Child Left Behind (NCLB),” one would assume this policy would help students. NCLB could help students get the proper education by having a highly qualified teacher teaching the core subjects to the students. And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English-language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers. In 2010, President Obama signed the Every St...