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 Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law. This law was made by the Obama administration joining a call from educators and families to create a better law that focused on the clear goal of fully preparing all students for success in college and careers. The ESSA includes provisions that will help to ensure success for students and schools. Below are just a few. The law:
-Advances equity by upholding critical protections for America's disadvantaged and high-need students.
-Requires—for the first time—that all students in America be taught to high academic standards that will prepare them to succeed in college and careers.
-Ensures that vital information is provided to educators, families, students, and communities through annual statewide assessments that measure students' progress toward those high standards.
-Helps to support and grow local innovations—including evidence-based and place-based interventions developed by local leaders and educators.
-Sustains and expands this administration's historic investments in increasing access to high-quality preschool.
-Maintains an expectation that there will be accountability and action to effect positive change in our lowest-performing schools, where groups of students are not making progress, and where graduation rates are low over extended periods.

   NCLB and ESSA are legal acts that help students be successful in school. These two laws and others were put in place to help ensure that education is being directed in the right direction, with the help of schools and families. But what's next for education?  Many of our schools are not meeting the standards to get into what students need for college and are just passed along to the next grade. Many have the smarts for school but have not been taught the life skills such as balancing their money. Many of our students are tempted by credit card companies and are in debt before they finish college, let alone student loans. 

What should our next education act be about? 
Should it include life skills and real-world math, or just keep letting students learn about finding the circumference of a circle? 
Should it include how to use AI properly? 
What are your thoughts?  

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References
Duff, M., & Wohlstetter, P. (2019). Negotiating intergovernmental relations under ESSA.     Educational Researcher, 48(5), 296–308. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x19854365

Krause, Marissa. (2012, June 26). Is government policy helping or hindering education?
    Community College Transfer to Ivy League, Tier 1 or Any University.         https://communitycollegetransferstudents.com/government-policy-education/

McGuinn, P. (2019). Assessing state ESSA plans: Innovation or retreat? Phi Delta Kappan,     101(2), 8–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/0031721719879146

            Wageman, J., & Bartoszuk, K. (2004). No Child Left Behind: An overview. NDSu Extension Circular. https://library.ndsu.edu/ir/handle/10365/10430



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