No Child Left Behind: Explained & Summarized

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This video offers an in depth explanation and summary of the No Child Left Behind Act. The video begins with the pros and cons of the No Child Left Behind Act. It helps to explain how the law impacted schools, teachers, administrators, and students. Next, we explore some of the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act in relation to students and teachers. The video continues by talking about the annual yearly progress, ayp. How does ayp impact each school. The video also lays out some of the consequences for a school that does not reach its annual year progress targets. It summarizes how a school must publicly report on its annual year progress targets. Other dimensions of the video include discussing k-3 reading based instruction. The No Child Left Behind act also includes how special education teachers are to be highly qualified in the subject area that they teach. And lastly, it goes into detail on the corrective actions that schools must take when they are placed on probation for not meeting ayp.

[omar-eduardobarriga]

you on paper it sounds great! but as soon as you step into a high school you can spot all the errors

[rishrauz]

Sorry..my bad.. wrong room...came here looking for donda

[kllwdcrkr]

I may be wrong here but it's pretty much common knowledge today that this act proved to be a total disaster for obvious reasons this video chose to be vague on. While it had some good points, it also had many unrealistic and questionable goals. For starters, it placed yearly proficiency levels (which on the surface sounds good), on many different "subgroups" and even combined groups to make "super sub-groups" (English-learners, students in special education, racial minorities, social-economically challenged) and any else they could think of. AND, if any ONE group failed to meet that proficiency level, the WHOLE school was held accountable and labeled a failure. Anybody with half a brain knows this is unrealistic and perhaps done by design. This eventually led to school closings, (even if they improved), good teachers leaving the system, and good students (instead of the failing ones) transferring to other schools. This in turn led to schools lowering standards to make them look like they were reaching their goals but in reality they weren't. Another standard incorporated in the NCLB was that 100% of the students in all states were to reach proficiency level by 2013-14. Seriously, no joke, look it up. Anyway, that ship sailed, but seriously who thought this up?! The standards they placed were unrealistic and were doomed to failure from the start, which should make one wonder if that was the intent all along, and for what purpose? What happened to the money? Even waivers which were added later to try and fix the sinking ship failed. Ultimately this was replaced in 2015 by the ESSA Act (Every Students Succeeds Act) of which I still have to research but I believe is a departure from NCLB. As a final note for now, I would like to mention that it is argued that the NCLB Act forced teachers to teach "to the test" and how to "choose the right box" at the expense of creative critical thinking which requires one to think outside the box. Ultimately, I'm sure the complete reality is more complex, but since I have been assigned this topic I'm sure to find out more.

[NintendoNerd]

man, i love being 3 years into high school with a 3rd grade knowledge level because i wasn’t held back to actually learn anything

[USSJOtaku]

So much for graduating with almost a 4.0 GPA in HS. Each time I would ask a teacher to teach me something different, higher than what the class was learning, they would be fired. 8th grade teacher was fired for teaching me logarithms and he even blamed it on NCLB. I absorb information fast and learn fast. So when teacher's started teacher basic Trigonometry, I absorbed that too. Why couldn't I be a transfer student 😪? I'd probably have a better education...

[tiny]

I hate the way my school works. I don't know if this applies to all school or if it's only the one I go to but in my school they allow students who don't show up to class more than 2 times a month, don't do any work, fail the quizzes and tests, and fail the class to pass to the next grade while someone like me who's probably smarter than 90% of the class is stuck with them because I wasn't in that school for 6th grade so I can't be in the advanced classes. And I was on a college grade reading level in 8th grade but I'm still stuck in the 9th grade class with a bunch of morons who can't even pronounce thou correctly. We're reading Romeo and Juliet so the word comes up a lot. Not sure if this law affects that but I just felt like ranting

[casualintrovert]

As someone who had unrecognized autism in elementary school I am so glad this existed. Otherwise I would have been the biggest embarrassment to myself being the oldest person in 6th grade through Highschool, and I already had major problems with bullying.

[joer.]

Wow, thanks NCLB! My health teacher gives me a D- on a paper and dosen't like my definition of a role model, but another guy named
Yusuf writes the same paper, but its shorter, and he gave less of a definition of a "role model"
He was Given a C-
She also gave me a D- on a "flyer" I was supposed to make about anti-bullying. I followed all 2 directions and she gave me a D- because it looked "Half-assed"

[PsycheDismantled]

This sounds to me like they had the right idea, it was most likely just not enforced.  Schools aren't going to get rid of bad teachers, I know my sons school didn't.  I literally had to remove him from at least one class per year due to poor teaching abilities.

[JundamRX]

Because of my kindergarten teacher held me back, it left me a bad mark in my life. Saw all my friends leave me while I’m stuck behind.

[LaStryka]

It means "Yes adult right in front of", teachers.

[robertagallant]

no public schools throughout the United States should deal with bad teachers.  Instead, they need qualified instructors to properly teach students in the classrooms for a change.

[romansanchez]

I am sorry for everyone who gone through this excuse of a program I had to fortunate luck to be born in 2010 when I was still a baby, so I never had to do any math or homework that much Have a nice day.

[somerage]

BACK AGAIN I HAD MY BACK AGAINST THE WALL, NEVER COUNT ON YALL ALWAYS COUNT ON GOD

[Jho]

I don’t know who passed this but HS is hell because of them.

[concentrate]

Like the girl in the Olympics who can't get a full score because she's too good

[aubreywhite]

Me failing those test and being held back in third grade. 😛seriously though I could never past those dang test

[Raiderloco.]

I still see kids getting left be hind most teachers just don’t care at all ! They just want a big paycheck school district should check the teacher making sure that their kid are testing good

[holystars]

to bad they did not have this back in the 90s my 3rd and 4th grade teacher did pretty much no teaching at all pretty much treated everyone in their class i mean all the kids as if their in kindergarten

6 7 barely learn anything learn times tables instead of going forward they would go lazy way and teach me time tables all the way to 12 grade it would be 2nd half of the school year where they finally teach division
list go on
two of those school those no longer existed so im guessing n child left behind close those schools

[BotBrendan]

But what does this have to do with the military... I got a letter from my school and I’m confused