The No Child Left Behind Act has been set in place since the year of 2001 to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice. But there has been many questions to whether or not this act is effective for the public schools throughout the United States. There are many pros and cons to the frequent question that has been asked. Even though there has been many concerns with changing the act, they are still trying to improve the gaps between. The intentions of this act was to fix all the in defaults but so far the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has not been effective in the public schools system because they have yet to prove that they can reach the high scores in the assessments that is supposed to be the key factor to a child's success. Being a student from the public school system, I personally was able to see the downfalls of why students are not able to reach the goal NCLB is trying to set. In order to make good things an adjustment needs to happen. …show more content…
Back then is when teachers were more so focused on teaching the students and not always worrying about making sure the students are reaching those high test scores. The fact is now that all schools must follow the rules under the act because they believe it is the right route to success. As stated in this newspaper article that the NCLB act was based upon the idea that schools should establish measurable educational goals and are held accountable for meeting them, in which they said that it was proven that this is improving education in the USA (Smith,