Standards

No Child Left Behind and Academic Content Standards

No Child Left Behind contains four basic education reform principles: stronger accountability for results, increased flexibility and local control, expanded options for parents, and an emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work.

An "accountable" education system involves several critical steps.

States create their own academic standards for what a child should know and learn for all grades.
With standards in place, states must test every student's progress toward those standards.
Each state, school district, and school will be expected to make adequate yearly progress toward meeting state standards.
Finally, if the district or school continually fails to make adequate progress toward the standards, then they will be held accountable.

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