Briefly describe the five features of the No Child Left Behind ...

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Briefly describe the five features of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act that are mentioned in the textbook.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

If you were required to help your students learn the capitals of all fifty states, the best approach to follow would be to
 
  a. have them work at the task for an hour every Monday morning.
  b. divide the states into groups of five and have them study a group during fifteen-minute periods spread out through the week.
  c. organize the states into geographic areas and have students learn all the capitals in one part of the country before going on to those in the next.
  d. put a map on the wall and have students put pins in each state as they memorize each capital.

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Answer to Question 1

NCLB requires that states do the following:
(a) establish challenging content and performance standards for mathematics, reading/language arts, and science; (b) test all students in grades three through eight in math and reading/language arts, test students in grades nine through twelve in either math or reading/language arts, and test students in grades three through twelve in science; (c) certify that a certain percentage of students each year have achieved adequate yearly progress on an approved test, and that all students achieve proficiency by 2014; (d) issue a report to parents and the general public that describes how all groups of students performed on the state test; (e) create an accountability system that rewards schools that meet its adequate yearly progress (AYP) goals and punishes schools that do not.

Answer to Question 2

B

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