NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT

No Child Left behind Act

No Child Left behind Act

Article #1

Measuring Academic Proficiency under the No Child Left Behind Act: Implications for Educational Equity (James S. Kim and Gail L. Sunderman)

The main purpose of this article is to have a focus on the issue regarding the accountability of that schools which are running under the umbrella of no child left behind act in this article authors trying to focus on the negative side of this act especially in this area where schools are racially diverse from other schools of United states, as according to this act racially diverse school faces problems in terms of students achievements as they are a force to qualify that criteria as prescribed by the no child left behind act, so authors main focus here is to find the main differences between those schools running under the same umbrella but in altered states, according to author alternative performance criteria should be design in order to check the performance targets for these schools as figures from six various states shows differences and biases which are off course, not in favor of racial school, but most of the Americans are not in a favor of this they demand that parallel performance evaluation should be applied to all schools running under no child left behind act. So in short while measuring academic proficiency, the concept of equality should be followed in order to have proper evaluation of those students.

Article # 2

Teachers' Views on No Child Left Behind: Support for the Principles, Concerns about the Practices (Richard J. Murnane and John P. Papay)

In this article author, main focus is on annual year progress, like what if AYP fails? As NCLB act primary target is to be that all students should be proficient, and for this purpose, all teachers should be qualified enough to as defined by the state. Main focus of this article is to see the effect on the distribution of student achievement in response to no child left behind act. Authors are trying to find the relationship between teachers and students achievements as according to author some time its happens that different schools has different policies, which create problems, for teachers to understand properly the legislation, this variation creates different problems for teachers, secondly sometime there is also some variations in independent states accountability system, so to overcome these problems all teachers should be highly qualified so they can easily understand all the issue and can teaches student better as other. So for this purpose formal accountability system should be there in order to have a check and balance on student achievement in relation with teachers teaching their. As most of the teachers are here to improve the lives of children.

Article # 3

Hidden Benefits and Unintended Consequences of No Child Left Behind Policies for Students Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (Stephanie W. Cawthon)

In an article, titled Hidden Benefits and Unintended Consequences of No Child Left Behind Policies for Students Who Are ...