# Presentation: 857351

## No Child Left Behind

*No Child Left Behind*

**A New Era in Education**

## “When it comes to the education of our children...failure is not an option.”

**President George W. Bush**
**August 1, 2001**

## Is spending the problem?

## Even when accounting for inflation, funding has doubled since 1985.

**Even when accounting for inflation, funding has doubled since 1985.**

## Percentage of Fourth Graders Reading Proficiently

## Reading Scores and Funding

**Reading Scores and Funding**

**Spending has increased but test scores have not.**

## “Insanity: the belief that one can get different results by doing the same thing.”

**“****Insanity: the belief that one can get different results by doing the same thing.”**
**-Albert Einstein**

## Schools using proven teaching methods will measure success by one measure alone: Is every child learning?

## This isn’t a Republican law.

**This isn’t a Democratic law.**
**This is ****an American**** law.**

## “America’s children depend on us. We must not thrust that burden onto our posterity. It is ours to bear.”

**“****America’s children depend on us. We must not thrust that burden onto our posterity. It is ours to bear.”**
**-U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, January 9, 2002**

## Four Reform Principles

**Accountability**: Guaranteeing Results
**Flexibility**: Local Control for Local Challenges
**Research-Based Reforms**: Proven Methods with Proven Results
**Parental Options**: Choices for Parents, Hope for Kids

**Four Reform Principles**

## Accountability

- Accountability begins with informed parents, communities and elected leaders so we can work together to improve schools.

**Accountability**

## How will states measure progress for schools and students?

- Test every child in grades 3 through 8 in reading and math.
- States will implement fair and effective annual tests.
- Washington will provide funding to states to design and implement tests.

**How will states measure progress for schools and students?**

## How will measuring progress every year help to improve schools?

- Information is a powerful tool for change.
- Annual testing tells us if students are making progress.
- Annual tests show educators what is working and what areas need improvement.

**How will measuring progress every year help to improve schools?**

## Improving schools through accountability means setting annual goals for improvement.

- According to a former school board member of a major urban school district:
- “School systems and schools exist to educate students...It is almost inconceivable that a school system would not want to know the answer to the most fundamental of all questions:
- Are the children learning?”

## What if schools do not improve?

- Schools that do not improve will receive extra help with planning and technical assistance.
- After receiving extra help, schools that do not improve may be restructured.
*No Child Left Behind* provides new hope for students in schools that are dangerous or in need of improvement

**What if schools do not improve?**

## Flexibility

*No Child Left Behind* gives communities the freedom to find local solutions for local challenges.

**Flexibility**

## Local control and flexibility means federal money can go to the classrooms where it is needed most.

**Local control and flexibility means federal money can go to the classrooms where it is needed most.**

## Teacher Quality

- Education Technology
- Safe and Drug-Free Schools

**For example...**
**to provide more local control and flexibility, 50% of the formula funding from the following programs may be distributed among any of the programs:**

## Local Control and flexibility means money goes to solve problems, not to subsidize bureaucracy.

**Local Control and flexibility means money goes to solve problems, not to subsidize bureaucracy.**

## How No Child Left Behind ensures improvements:

**How *****No Child Left Behind***** ensures improvements:**

## Research-Based Improvements

**The Problem**: Some schools use unreliable and untested methods that can actually impede academic progress.
**The Solution**: Encourage schools to use evidence-based practices and materials.

**Research-Based Improvements**

## Solid research equals solid results.

**Solid research equals solid results.**

## What is reliable research?

- Scientific method-
- Hypothesis
- Controls are used
- Outcome proves or disproves the hypothesis

## Replicated- Repeat studies find the same results.

## Generalized- Study findings represent truth for the general population.

## Meets Rigorous Standards - Methods and conclusions must be confirmed by peer review.

## Convergent findings- Conclusions are in line with findings from other studies.

## No Child Left Behind helps prepare and protect teachers.

- Provides teachers the very best tools for teaching such as scientifically proven methods, lessons, materials, and professional development.

***No Child Left Behind***** helps prepare and protect teachers.**

## Options for Parents

*No Child Left Behind* provides a lifeline to parents by giving them information regarding not only how their child is achieving academically, but also how their school and school district are performing as well.

**Options for Parents**

**Means Hope For Kids**

## No Child Left Behind: 

***No Child Left Behind*****: **
**A lifeline for students trapped in schools that are dangerous or in need of improvement**

- Parents can choose to make a change when their child’s school does not improve.

## Under No Child Left Behind:

- If a school does not meet its academic growth target for two consecutive years: parents have the right to transfer their child to a successful public school, including a charter school and...

## The school district must pay for transportation.

## If a school has failed for three consecutive years, parents of disadvantaged students have the right to supplemental educational services at the expense of the school district.

## If a school is designated by the state as dangerous or unsafe, parents have the right to request a transfer to a safer public school.

**If a school is designated by the state as dangerous or unsafe, parents have the right to request a transfer to a safer public school.**

## Parents Must Be Our Partners

- “Good education starts in the living rooms of the citizens of this country. It starts with a mom or a dad saying, ‘you turn off the TV and practice reading.’ It means, get rid of the tube and get into the books.”
-  -President George W. Bush, August 2001

## A Call to Action for Parents:

- Parents, teachers and school administrators hold the key to the success of our schools.
- Parents need to instill values and discipline at home to help their children so they can be prepared to succeed in school.

**A Call to Action for Parents:**

## Our Nation’s Commitment:

- Every American child can learn.
- It is our duty as Americans to make sure...
-  *No child is left behind!*

**Our Nation’s Commitment:**

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