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Policy Timeline
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1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act
- The goal of the ESEA is to provide equal access to education, and establish high standards and accountability.
- The ESEA was an element of Lyndon B. Johnson's "War on Poverty". As a former teacher, Johnsons believed that education was vital to fufill a productive life.
- The goverenment provided federal to schools with many low-income students.
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Report "Reclaiming our Nation at Risk"
- Our system of education was not keeping pace with the program of other nations, and it threatened our children's opportunities and collective future.
- The Commission recommended the adoption of more rigorous and measurable standards and higher expectations for academic performance and 4-year colleges raise their requirements for admission.
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Improving America's School Act and Goals 2000: Educate America Act
- Congressional legislation, federal level
- adoption of national K–12 performance goals for the year 2000
- Congress passed the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994, which required state academic-content standards and tests
- Also passed the Goals 2000: Educate America Act, which provided federal l funds to aid states in writing those content standards.
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No Child Left Behind
- Congressional legislation, federal level