Standards-Based Education: Outcome-Based Education, No Child Left Behind ACT, Educational Assessment, Kenneth Maryboy, Homework

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Adequate Yearly Progress, Alfie Kohn, Block scheduling, Busy work, Comprehensive School Reform, Connected Mathematics, Continuous assessment, Cooperative learning, Curriculum for Excellence, Curriculum framework, Davis Filfred, Developmentally Appropriate Practice, Display board, E-assessment, Educational assessment, Holistic grading, Homework, Illinois Loop, Inquiry-based learning, Kenneth Maryboy, Learning standards, List of state achievement tests in the United States, Mark Maryboy, Math wars, National Assessment Bank, National Center on Education and the Economy, National Education Goals Panel, National Science Education Standards, No Child Left Behind Act, Ohio Graduation Test, Outcome-based education, Pearson Assessment & Information, Recognising and Recording Progress and Achievement, Reform mathematics, Sandra Stotsky, Scientific literacy, Scripted teaching, Small Learning Community, Social promotion, Success for All, TeachEngineering, William Spady. Excerpt: The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is a United States Act of Congress that is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which included Title I, the government's flagship aid program for disadvantaged students. NCLB supports standards-based education reform based on the premise that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education. The Act requires states to develop assessments in basic skills. States must give these assessments to all students at select grade levels in order to receive federal school funding. The Act does not assert a national achievement standard; standards are set by each individual state. NCLB expanded the federal role in public education through annual testing, annual academic progress, report cards, teacher qualifications, and funding changes. The bill passed in the U.S. Congress with bipartisan support. The legislation was proposed by President George W. Bush on January 23, 2001. It was coauthored by Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), George Miller (D-CA), and Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Judd Gregg (R-NH). The United States House of Representatives passed the bill on May 23, 2001 (voting 384-45), and the United States Senate passed it on June 14, 2001 (voting 91-8). President Bush signed it into law on January 8, 2002. No Child Left Behind requires all public schools receiving federal funding to administer a state-wide standardized test annually to all students. This means that all students take the same test under the same conditions. Schools which receive Title I funding through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 must make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in test scores (e.g. each year, its fifth graders must do better on standardized tests than the previous year's fifth graders). If the school's results are repeatedly poor, then steps are taken to improve the school. States must create AYP objectives consistent with the following requ