No Child Left Behind Act

The No Child Left Behind Act ( NCLB; German No - child - is - left - law ) is an education law that aims to improve the quality of public schools in the United States. The law stems from a legislative initiative of U.S. President George W. Bush and entered into force in January 2002.

Objectives

Purpose of this Act is to invest more money in education and award the individual schools more responsibility. To this end, comprehensive school achievement tests were introduced. Schools that perform poorly in these tests will be penalized. Furthermore, parents should take more responsibility for the education of their child perceive. This is to be accomplished by parents free choice of school leaving, which is to visit their child. If the public school does not meet the requirements, they can buy their children with education vouchers in other state schools, hire a private tutor or send them to charter schools.

Another aim of the Act is to facilitate the military access data of students for the purpose of recruitment. To this end, the participating schools are obliged by section 9528 of the Act, their list of pupils to submit the recruitment offices of the Defense Ministry.

Criticism

The program has come under criticism because promised financial aid from the government have failed. Also doubts about the quality of the test procedures are loud. Some teachers fear that more time is spent with test preparations than with learning. It is feared that by the system of educational vouchers, charter schools and private teachers money flows to private schools, which was originally intended to improve the funding of state schools.