What methods does NCLB use to improve education?
NCLB increases the standards of accountability for states, school districts, and schools in three primary areas: student proficiency, teacher qualifications, and performance in math and reading. First, each state is required to hold its districts accountable for moving all their students to a level of “proficiency” by 2014. Districts must report test scores and other measures for every school and show how these metrics break down by subgroups, including major racial and ethnic groups, low income students, students with disabilities, and students with limited English proficiency. Schools that fail to make “adequate yearly progress” toward state goals for two years are required to provide students with public school choice: the option to transfer to other designated public schools in their districts for the next school year. Second, the act required that, by the end of the 2005 to 2006 school year, all teachers be “fully qualified” under the law’s conditions, including new teachers havin
