History of NCLB
Key Players
Acronyms
Current Events - NCLB
Statistics
100
The President of the United States that originally enacted NCLB
Who is George W. Bush?
100
This senator from Massachusetts was insturmental in shaping the NCLB Act of 2001
Who is Edward Kennedy?
100
NCLB
What is No Child Left Behind?
100
The current president who is proposing changing NCLB
Who is Barack Obama?
100
Currently, there are approximately 30% of schools that are not meeting this NCLB standard which measures a school's improvement from year to year
What is Adequate Yearly Progress?
200
The city where was NCLB signed into law
What is Hamilton, Ohio?
200
The current Education Secretary
Who is Arne Duncan?
200
CATS
What is Commonwealth Accountability Testing System?
200
The focus of Obama's new plan is not on "grade-level proficiency" but on this new standard
What is ensuring that students are ready for career or college?
200
The U.S. Department of Education reports that this percentage of 4th graders can read at grade level.
What is 32%? (30-40% accepted)
300
The year that NCLB was voted into law by Congress
What is 2001? It passed through Congress in December 2001 and then was signed by George W. Bush in January 2002.
300
This president signed the Improving America's School Act in 1994, a step toward improving education but with fewer rules and timelines than NCLB
Who is Bill Clinton?
300
OAT
What is Ohio Achievement Test?
300
Under Obama's new plan, these school subjects would be added as part of the measurements for meeting federal goals.
What are arts, history, technology, and social studies? (ANY TWO ANSWERS)
300
According to the NCLB database, 26 of the 50 states are not properly defining what it means to be this type of teacher
What is a "Highly Qualified Teacher"?
400
The NCLB Act of 2001 reauthorizes this act, originally passed in 1965.
What is The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA)? The passing of this act represented the first time that federal, state and local governments came together to begin addressing the national problem of low-performing schools across the nation by providing federal funding for students and schools in challenging socioeconomic situations.
400
The group of people responsible for reauthorizing education laws
Who is Congress?
400
AYP
What is Adequate Yearly Progress?
400
The amount of money that Obama is asking for to fund this major overhaul of NCLB
What is $4 billion dollars?
400
In 2006-7, 17 million children were served by this program which provides financial assistance to public schools with high percentages of poor children
What is Title I?
500
The centerpiece of the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) was the creation of this program, which has pumped billions of federal dollars into education for poor children over the past 45 years.
What is Title I?
500
The president who enacted the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
Who is Lyndon Johnson?
500
LEAs
What are Local Educational Agencies?
500
Under Obama's new plan, this percentage of schools would be subject to aggressive measures, such as replacing the principal and staff or closing the school altogether.
What is the lowest 5% of schools?
500
The current NCLB law requires 4th graders to be at certain proficiency levels by this year
What is 2014? Back in 2003, Robert Linn, president of the American Educational Research Association, estimated that, given our current progress, we will meet NCLB proficiency requirements for 4th grade math in 57 years. That would be 2060!
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