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America used to thrive on its education system and that is why it became one of the greatest nations in the world. Education is the backbone of our country, and we must give high priority to improve its current condition. Unfortunately, in the past couple of decades, the education system has been regressing. It has been on the decline and not as effective. The quality of education in a country has an influence on GDP growth, social cohesion and social well being in general. In order to improve the quality of education in the U.S., the following must be taken into consideration: the structure of our education system must be reanalyzed, we must compare and contrast our education system to systems of other countries with higher rankings, and finally, there must be a solution.

"Making Sure That Schools Measure Up." Education Week, vol. 36, no. 16, 4 Jan. 2017, pp. 18-20. EBSCOhost. PDF. In this periodical article, Alyson Klein, reporter for Education Week, reflects on Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), an update to the K-12 education law, in the one year since it was passed in 2016. Klein discusses how the ESSA was designed to improve shortcomings of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the previous version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Klein also examines concerns over greater flexibility given to states and districts regarding issues such as standardized test, school choice, marginalized students. The Obama administration wrote how the accountability portion of the law would work, allowing states to pick their own goals, both a long term goal and short term goals. These goals must address students’ proficiency on tests, English-language proficiency, and graduation

On December 10, 2015 President Obama signed Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This act was a replacement for No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. NCLB was a representation of the nation’s goals under president George Bush in which all children would be offered support in order to flourish academically. While ESSA has the same groundwork as NCLB Act, the government anticipates greater academic merit. Only time will tell if this will prove true, nevertheless ESSA will significantly change educational approaches in the upcoming years.

The Department of Education has a mission with many goals. These goals are to strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual and encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal education programs. They also want to supplement and complement the efforts of states and the local school systems, the private sector, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community-based organizations, parents, and students to improve the quality of education. High on their agenda is to improve the management and coordination of Federal programs and activities.

American education since 1930 has seen a gradual increase in the involvement of the federal government. This intervention has been marked by two major goals: 1.) increasing educational opportunity and equality, especially for groups from which these had been historically denied. 2.) Increasing the quality of education to strengthen communities, states and the nation. The most significant growth of the federal involvement in education has taken place since World War II.

This literature review seeks to explore the Every Student Succeeds Act (2015), a bipartisan reauthorization and revision to the No Child Left Behind Act (2002). The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is the first law passed in fourteen years to address Reneeded changes to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Considered progressive and innovative at the time of its passage, NCLB was the most dramatic and aggressive legislation enacted in decades and afforded the federal government enormous oversight of schools in the U.S. Passage of ESSA represents a shift back to state governance of schools and, whether

Each president since Johnson, aside from President Nixon, left his mark on this landmark legislation. As a result, since 1965 “the federal role in education policy has grown tremendously.” In 1979, President Carter created the Department of Education in part to help administer this law more effectively; the creation of this department significant broadened federal involvement in education. Furthermore, in 1994, President Clinton reauthorized ESEA under the name of the Improving America’s Schools Act as part of his broader Goals 2000 initiative. This act allocated more funding to districts with higher concentrations of low income students, with the same central goal as the original ESEA: to improve the educational attainment of students in low-performing school districts.

Evidence of change is heavily supported by the many change initiatives the United States’ education system has seen in the past few years. There have been programs and initiatives that have been implemented and replaced, due to their ineffectiveness as a whole. Programs such as No Child Left behind (2002) were brought in as an initiative to assist schools with bridging the gap for students who had fell behind or schools who were falling behind; however, this initiative failed due to its one size fits all methodology. The NCLB initiative became too much for schools and school officials to implement effectively. Consequently, in 2015 the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was created to fill the voids that were missing from NCLB. For example, NCLB accountability results were based on test scores alone, while ESSA focuses on multiple progress areas. ESSA provides a well-rounded education program for all students, regardless of their background or home environment. It includes more rigorous college and career readiness standards nationwide. These standards ensure that students nationwide are receiving the same information and skill sets. For example, the college and career readiness standards ensure that students are leaving grade school prepared to think critically, which will allow them to graduate from college or find a career outside of the college realm. NCLB lacked this foundation. The basis for which schools are assessed fall under many components, rather than just

Next, the “No Child left behind Act” it was signed by President George W. Bush and it passed with bipartisan support on Jan. 8, 2002. This Act states that there will be mandated annual testing in the subject reading and math and science. In the grades 3-8 and 10th grade. It shows the "Adequate Yearly Progress" of each school in the system of the United States. (source 1) The biggest point of this Act is that no child is “trapped in a failing school” (source 1). That each student in the United States is being able to get the fair treatment as every other student in United States should receive. This act also emphasis reading, Bush wanted to make sure that each student by third grade were able to read well aka “Putting Reading First”. This reply I have stated in the other paragraphs the Government has put a lot of emphasis on these test and they are highly looked at for the Government. If schools failure to meet up to the standards of the Government, correction must happen. School is closed and teacher need to be fired and replaced. So that our future of American students are able to make sure they 're getting the best education possible.

Since the 1980’s, US students have been falling well behind students in other industrialized nations in terms of knowledge and education. The US is losing its ability to create a quality education for the majority of its students. The government has attempted to combat this by introducing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2002, then replacing that with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2016. Nonetheless, these laws have failed in their attempts to improve education and have implemented rigorous amounts of testing rather than fixing the education system. They have created a flawed testing system, applied too harsh of punishments on under-performing schools, and harmed disadvantaged students. The fact that these problems exist is

On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), replacing the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). ESSA was passed with bipartisan support and allows a more flexible plan for decision making for education at the state and local levels. Full implementation begins July 1, 2017. ESSA gives states more leeway in a wide range of areas, and the U.S. Department of Education role in accountability is considerably scaled back. The main difference in ESSA is that it hands the educational accountability ball from the federal government to the states.

Upon consideration of the education crisis that currently is the United States’ educational system there have developed intangible amounts of controversy, each one in itself claiming to have solved the problem or to have identified what truly is wrong with it. The most strained trend of these controversies is the view on school system policy, policy being what makes a school system unique also is claimed to be the big issue of the U.S. However, in the current state of this country in dire need of resolution it is evident that no change in policy can solve a much greater issue, one that stands more than just in the way of education but the emancipation of a dream, the American Dream. The fault lies not in the policy of the system, but in

The No Child Left Behind Act was passed in 2001, and it has been the topic of debate ever since. The act was first passed during the Johnson administration as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and then Bush reformed it into the No Child Left Behind Act (New York Times, (“No Child Left Behind Act”). The act gained much popularity among people because it would make the United States the “first country ever to make a commitment to provide every child with a quality education” (Spellings 15). With the United States slipping in their education system this is exactly the type of thing Americans wanted to hear. Educational Reform was a big part of Bush’s platform for the 2000 campaign. This act lead to the federal government being more involved in education than ever. The act sets up requirements all over the country to help reform the Public School System. No Child Left Behind purpose was to increase student achievement and help children from impoverished areas excel. Schools would now receive funding based upon the results of their improvement. No Child Left Behind ensured that schools now had to use their funding to obtain “academic results for all children” (Fisanick 11). The

The Every Child Succeeds Act is what is we know today to be how our education system is set up. This has not always been the case. This act first started out as the Elementary and Secondary act of 1965. President Johnson believed in helping the lower income schools. He did this by giving federal grants to school districts serving low income students as well as grants for textbooks and books.He also introduced SPED centers and scholarships for low income students for college. This act was successful until about the 2000’s.In 2002 George W. Bush came up with a new act called No Child Left Behind. His plan has different ways of helping the education system which increases the role of the federal government with helping academic progress. His

The role of the federal government in setting education policy increased significantly with the passage by Congress of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, a sweeping education reform law that revised the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. "Federal policy has played a major role in supporting standards-based reform since the passage of the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) of 1994. That law required states to establish challenging content and performance standards, implement assessments…hold school systems accountable…" (Goertz, 2005, pg. 73)