Knowledge Bank

No Child Left Behind Highlights

Stronger accountability for results

• Monitoring and assessing teacher performance and impact of teacher qualification on student achievement
• Performance and other evaluations
• Using data to evaluate teachers and student achievement and determining teacher effectiveness in classroom instruction to raise student performance
• Rewarding teacher success in raising achievement – teacher incentive plans
• Improving quality of teachers by identifying teachers needing professional development and support programs and bringing highly qualified teachers into the classroom
• Effective classroom assignment

More freedom for states 

Encouraging proven education methods 

More choices for parents

Williams Legislation Highlights

• Ensuring students have equal access to basics of quality education: textbooks, safe and decent facilities and qualified teachers 
• Williams settlement makes it mandatory for school districts to monitor low performing schools and determine if students have access to qualified teachers 
• Monitoring whether teachers have proper classroom assignments and certifications