No Child Left Behind

Education is very important and affects many aspects of a child’s life. The United States does care about education as seen through the attempt of No Child Left Behind. President George Bush and Congress put the No Child Left Behind Act into place in 2002. It requires every state and school district to come up with assessments and standards for Mathematics, Reading, and Science. These standards are used to see how well schools are doing. The law does try and pull everyone to equal educational levels, but does it in the wrong ways. We need to have national guidelines that make sure all schools are providing the same opportunities to learn for all students. Some students are going to be at lower level because of their economic background and other various reason and these all need to be taken into account when evaluating progress. These students are going to need more help due to their disadvantages. Although the underprivileged will need a lot of attention, the students working at a higher level need to continue getting the work and drives to stay and exceed the levels they are at. Altogether each child needs to be examined differently according to their needs and learning styles and be assessed accordingly.