RESEARCH PAPER PROPOSAL

Research Paper Proposal



Research Paper Proposal

Statement of the Problem/Problem Statement

Bush Administration formulated the “No Child Left behind Act” in 2001 aimed towards increasing the literacy level of United States. This program received huge criticism and the current government of Barak Obama abandons this program. Different specialists have given wide and myriad range of reasons behind its failure and the financial hitches remains the core in the failure of this success.

Research Question

Mainly there are two research questions involved in this study:

Research Question Number One

Whether lack of funding was the cause of the program failure of “No Child Left behind Act”?

Research Question Number Two

Whether improper financial allocation was the cause of program failure of “No Child Left behind Act.”

Preliminary Literature Review

The No Child Left behind Act (NCLB) is a complex and controversial federal educational reform initiative that was signed into law in 2002 (Yell & Dragon, 2005). It was a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program came under criticism because there had been no promised financial aid from the government. Also doubts about the quality of the test procedures are loud. Some teachers are concerned that more time spent on test preparation than with learning. It is feared that the system of education vouchers, private teacher and charter schools money flows to private schools, originally to improve the funding of state schools was provided (Fisanick, 2008).

The primary purpose of NCLB was to ensure that students in public schools achieved important learning outcomes while being educated in safe classrooms by well-prepared teachers. To accomplish these goals, NCLB required that states develop challenging academic achievement standards and assess public school students annually on their progress toward meeting these standards. Specifically, public schools were required to ensure that all public school students would reach proficiency in reading, math, and science by the 2013- 2014 school year. NCLB included three mandates to reach this ambitious goal: accountability, evidence-based instruction, and highly qualified teachers (Hayes, 2008).

Much of the political impetus for the passage of NCLB was provided by the results of state and national assessments of student progress, particularly the National Assessment of Educational Progress. It depicted that the student's success in math and reading had been very weak over the last 40 years despite great amount of funds in fluxed. These facts inclined the legislators that the funds should be flowed in more efficiently. For the first time, ...