Which is NOT a provision of No Child Left Behind?

Answer 1

It would seem that under the No Child Left Behind program and other similar policies worldwide there is no provision to ensure the programs actually work, or even to attempt to have them do so.

There is also no provision to ensure specific figures be made available on how many children are actually 'left behind' and why these children are excluded, or fail to be included, in the programs; this is probably not possible in any case.

This is not to say NCLB and other such policies are unhelpful to those they are designed to assist, it simply indicates the enormity and, unfortunately, the impossibility, of having these programs live up to their names.

But one can hardly begin such ambitious programs by giving them names such as, 'Not Too Many Children Left Behind', or 'Fewer Children Left Behind This Year Than Last Year', or 'No Child Left Behind Except For Those We Miss'. We might just as well say, it can't work so we won't try, which would be a terrible thing.

We need to begin by working ever upwards in small but manageable steps to ensure the most important resource in every society - its children - is given the status, attention and funding appropriate to its high priority.

The ultimate and ideal goal of any society, locally and globally, is for each and every child to achieve its full potential.

We can only work towards this goal by trying, individually and collectively, separately and together, to do our very best for all children, and to understand and accept that this is up to all of us, now, and not to be left to some faceless committee within some government to get around to at some time in the future.

To get the message across that this is our job is not a specific provision of NCLB and similar programs.