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No Child Left Behind is designed to change the culture of America Background on Presidential Action
President Bush’s plan to reform our Nation’s elementary and secondary schools to ensure that all children are proficient in reading and math by the 2013-14 school year was passed in Congress with bipartisan majorities. The President signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) so that testing, accountability, and high standards will join with record new funding to help ensure educational excellence for every child. The early grades are seeing progress across America, but we must finish the job with American hig... Reading First: A $6 Billion Investment to Improve the Reading Skills of Young Children
President Bush has requested increasing funds each year to ensure that states use scientifically based reading instruction and teaching methods. Unprecedented amounts of money are being put into improving the teaching of reading in our nation--more than $6 billion over six years. Clearly, this is a strong commitment toward helping all children learn to read.
Research shows, and teachers know, that children who read well in the early grades are far more s... |