No Child Left Behind - George W. Bush Educational Agenda

• Author: Radu, L.
• Position: Department of Foreign Languages, Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 67-72

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 6 (55) No. 1 - 2013

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND –

GEORGE W. BUSH

EDUCATIONAL AGENDA

Lucian RADU1

Abstract: This paper is meant to outline the ways in which the 2002

legislation, No child left Behind, which has had a major effect on public

education in the United States, redirected educational thinking along new

channels, thrusting the teachers, schools and school districts into a new federal

educational policy.

Key words: student’s performance, teachers` quality, parents` role, flexibility,

discrepancies between scores.

1 Department of Foreign Languages, Transilvania University of Braşov.

1. General Considerations

“The federal legislation known as No

Child Left Behind has had a major effect

on public education in the United

States.” [2].

The Law, signed by the president

George W. Bush on January 8, 2002, at

Hamilton HS Ohio, reinforces a whole

series of federal programs with the

declared purpose to improve

performance of American schools.

“Passed with bipartisan support by a

republican Congress (…), the hundreds

of pages of the law have touched every

public school classroom “in the United

States [2].

It also offers parents more flexibility in

choosing schools attended by their

children and also insists on developing

reading skills, reauthorizes the

Elementary and Secondary Education

Act (1965), represents the latest

legislation, which launches educational

reform based on standards.

In the introductory speech, which

presents the educational policy of his

administration, President George W.

Bush points out that in America there are

too many children wit h low expectations

and very few children are offered the

chance to progress and “are therefore left

behind: If our country fails in its

responsibility to educate every child,

we're likely to fail in many other areas.

But if we succeed in educating our youth,

many other successes will follow

throughout our country and in the lives

of our citizens” [1].

Most of the President G. W. Bush

educational Agenda may be found in No

Child Left Behind.

A construction project intended to

repair and restore the building of U.S.

Department of Education in 2002

required the installation of structures at

all entrances of the building in order to

protect employees and visitors from

falling debris.