"No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Reading Response."

In 2001 President W. Bush announced No child Left behind. .” His major concern was “too many of our neediest children are being left behind.” The No left behind act was to improve the performance of America’s elementary and secondary schools while at the same time ensuring that no child should be trapped in a failing school. The author gave examples on how the new law was focused on development and class reduction, that focus more on practices grounded in scientifically based research to prepare, train, and convert high-quality teachers.

I think the author did argue the point well because of the many examples we were given and, stated facts in the article. The author gave main points about the Presidents No Child Left behind Act, (NCLB) and shows many opportunities students have, to attend a better school to improve academic skills instead of failing, and falling behind grades and years within classmates. The assumptions of the author is their agreeing with the act and stand for the law to enhance better schools and produce drug free safe environment to demonstrate effectiveness for students. The author states a lot of quotes and facts not really making people disagree, just making people agree with the (NCLB) act.  Some people may agree with this article for the fact of no children being behind, and using more funds to produce this is ok, and then some may not just really depends on how the reader takes this authors article. The only question I was left with was how did or is the law effecting schools up to date? Did it change students and teachers attitudes towards school?

I totally agree with the author I just would of wrote this article more straight forward to people for people to have a better understanding of why President George W Bush decided to  come up with act of no children being left behind. I think the reading put an affect to my thinking that school is very important at a young age if children are young and fail in third grade then they will lose hope as they grow older because once your young you never let actions and reactions be for gotten you keep them forever. I think we need to produce hope for a student at a young age and this is an article that was a perfect example for students and teachers.

The golden line that stuck out to me the most would be “There will be no excuses made for why we can’t push our children across the achievement gap over to the fertile side- and eventually, to equity, shining in the sky.” This stuck out to me because I know if teachers give us positive energy and a valuable way of teaching then it will push students harder to not give up and keep going!