Has No Child Left Behind Been Good For Education Summary

Jeremy D. Moore

English 101

June 8, 2015

No Child Left Behind

We established the no child left behind laws in the 1960’s and reestablished them again in 2001 then went into effect in 2002. Frederick M. Hess director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and resident scholar wrote an article “Has No Child Left Behind Been Good for Education?” He believes that this law is salvageable as long as the government sets standard for schools across the United States. Schools within each state should be recognized at top tier schools and also focus on the schools that are doing poorly. With the standards the schools who are pushing young minds to be better should get better recognition for their efforts while schools who

Hess is making people aware of what the law is about for the schools and how the government can help make the education system better. He wants schools who are not achieving to be under urgency with a watchful eye to get them back on track and if that does not work they need to be shut down. The author wants schools that are exceeding the standards to be rewarded better for being among the best and striving to help their students achieve. He used other studies from Michigan schools to show what was going wrong and good within areas of the school system. One of the things he left out was that since we are a country of many races and languages that some people who are here or have come here English among other classes these students may not have taken. He did not seems to go into other cultures and English as a second language to others who are here in

He informs people who may not know how it works and how money is spent towards your children’s education based off how the school does as a whole. Rothstein discusses making all test standard for all states and should be taken more than once a year to see where the school is really at on test scores, to see where the stats on the schools are really at collectively, and how much better or worse the scores are at from last year. Taking a test once a year puts more stress on the students taking the test because it is a yearly test which they are afraid to fail and if it was made bi-annually less stress is exerted by those who feel this way. The author makes it clear that some states like New Jersey spends roughly 14 thousand per student where Mississippi spends less than half of that per student. He also made the point that people who has lower IQs of at least 65 have had to compete with kids with the IQs of 85 to 115 and explained that this standard would always effect the testing scores for the schools. Rothstein also lets us know that if teachers try to let people know that certain kids are having issues that they are making excuses for their poor performances as