Get Right or Get Left

Get Right or Get Left

Is the “No Child Left Behind Act” a good idea? Are our children neglected as far as education goes? Are they up to par on what they need to be? Education is of high priority in the United States; without education a promising future is quite doubtful. We are such an advanced country in this day in age that even more than a high school education is generally an essential requirement. Twenty-five years ago someone could have found a blue-collar job with little or no problem and made a good living even if they quit high school. Now it is not uncommon for an associate degree to be required to manage even a department store. If a person were to work a job without a college degree they will be looking at a whole eight dollar an hour top out for pay. With the cost of living, who can survive making a whopping

$16,640/a year? With the dropout rates in American schools being as high as they are, what does the future hold for our children? Why are the rates of students not graduating steadily increasing? What can be done to fix this?

First Education Act Introduced

The US government has assembled many guidelines for our schools to follow in the form of “acts” beginning with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1965. President Johnson said “By passing this bill, we bridge the gap between helplessness and hope for more than 5 million educationally deprived children, I believe deeply no law I have signed or will ever sign means more to the future of America” (Robelen, 2005). The ESEA was implemented “to strengthen and improve educational quality and educational opportunities in the Nations elementary and secondary schools” (Congress, 1965). This act provided an in depth plan to tackle the variation of educational opportunity for economically underprivileged children and would require money is set aside for education, library resources and materials, and supplementary education centers for...