No Child Left Behind and High School Reform (original) (raw)

Civil Rights advocates hailed the 2001 reauthorization of the ESEA, optimistically entitled "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB), as a step forward in the long battle to improve education for those children traditionally left behind in American schools -in particular, students of color and those living in poverty, new English learners, and students with disabilities. The broad goal of NCLB is to raise the achievement levels of all students, especially underperforming groups, and to close the achievement gap that parallels race and class. The Act intends to do this by focusing schools' attention on improving test scores for all groups of students, providing parents' more educational choices, and ensuring better qualified teachers.

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