So far during my research, I have come across many articles that mention the No Child Left Behind Act and how it is or isn’t helping our poor and minority public school children. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 is an Act of Congress that reauthorized a number of federal programs aiming to improve the performance of U.S. primary and secondary schools (wikipedia.com).
On the subject of racism, some believe that NCLB encourages racism in that it enables segregation in the way that the data in collected to monitor improvements in the student’s performance. As mentioned in the article from my last blog, the data is separated based on race so as to keep a successful record of the different groups improvements or decreases in improvements. According to an organization called Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination, the targeted groups that are labeled problematic are usually the African American and Latino students (card.wordpress.com).
So far I have not found as much information on how helpful the law has been aside from the fact that it opens a few more doors for the less fortunate. It is amazing how laws like these can be linked to racism in a society that is supposed to be “colorblind”, or from a society that is supposed to function of off “All men are created equal…”.
