Solutions

What can you do as policy makers, school officials, and parents? We can all start with developing new ideas to reform NCLB. For example,

Students would benefit from a program with specific tests for each school district. If this is not feasible, then the Act should include other aspects of education into Adequate Yearly Progress. This way, students would not have to be taught to a test and they would probably increase test scores because the tests would incorporate material from their every day curriculum.

Another solution would be to provide more resources more easily and perhaps more frequently than the federal government does now. It seems that some schools that get their resources taken away do not have very many resources to begin with. Therefore, I think that more programs like the “I Have a Dream Foundation” should be implemented. This program works to ensure that all students have a feasible path to higher education. It targets a specific grade level of elementary schools in low income communities and helps provide them with the “skills, knowledge, and habits” to succeed. The program also targets all aspects of the children’s lives—school, home, social environment, etc—to help them develop. Programs like this give students the proper resources to learn and to achieve greatness.