Sentences with phrase «nclb lowered support»

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A clear plurality of the public at large supports revisions in NCLB to increase the number of choice options available to parents whose children attend low - performing schools.

Current and former public school employees, however, consistently register lower levels of support for NCLB.

But Obama, taking Duncan's lead, now supports some of the key NCLB concepts that doomed it to fail: high - stakes standardized testing, punishment for lowest - achieving schools, and arbitrary deadlines for success.

While the No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB, required states and districts to identify persistently low - performing schools and take action to improve student learning, it provided very limited resources or support to actually help these schools improve.

All but six states — Montana, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Wyoming — have requested flexibility from meeting onerous NCLB requirements in exchange for developing and implementing their own reforms that prepare students for college and careers, improve the lowest - performing schools, and support effective teaching and leadership.