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No Child Left Behind Act
The “No Child Left Behind Act” (NCLBA) is possibly the most significant education act in years. It was originally put into place by the Bush administration in early 2002. The NCLBA is a very rigorous overhaul of our entire nation’s education system, calling for; all stats to adopt basic standards tests. The first of 4 main parts of the NCLBA now requires students to take 7 basic standards tests between K-12 instead of the previous 4. For the first time schools are now required to report their scores on the basic standards tests broken down into 4 subgroups; economically disadvantaged students, major racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and students with limited English proficiency. States must also publish progress in raising student performance, and the difference in teacher qualifications in areas of high-poverty versus areas of low-poverty. The second part of the NCLBA is accountability. Students must reach proficiency in reading and math by 2014 making adequate yearly progress (AYP). The third part requires schools to make AYP each year, if a school fails to do so for 3 consecutive years it must pay out of pocket for after school tutoring, summer school, and various other programs. If a school fails to make AYP for 4 consecutive years the state is required to re-structure the school. The final part of the NCLBA is requiring all teachers to now be “highly qualified” meaning they must have a degree in their area of teaching and must be properly licensed by the state.
The whole goal of the NCLBA is very basic and very important – to improve the education our youth gets. This is very important since the future of our nation is held in the hands of our youth and in recent years the United States has been falling behind in education compared to many other countries. The NCLBA also tries to close the gap between the top and bottom students, including those with handicaps, learning disabilities, and lack of knowledge in the English language.
I personally think the NCLBA has good intentions but overall doesn’t do a good job. I think they are requiring too many changes with not enough time or money. I also have a problem with schools having to be equal for both the top and bottom students. I think everyone should have a fair chance in the education for sure. I also think students that are “gifted” and students that put forth a lot of effort and try very hard in school should receive more benefits than the children who don’t want to be in school and do not try. When I was in high school in Minnesota, my AP statistics teacher showed us a shocking study. The study showed that for every 100 dollars a student with a disability receives in their public education, the average “gifted”/AP student receives 10 cents. I think that is ridiculous. The students who will go on to be our doctors, lawyers, and engineers should be getting extra funding if anything. These students will be the ones who go on to impact our society the most. I am not saying we should cut back costs on the special education programs, but that part of the NCLBA should be looked over again. I think it would be much more beneficial to our nation as a whole to the bright students who work hard more opportunities. It is a waste to give opportunities to the students who blow them off and waste them. Overall we are going to have to wait and see how the NCLBA works out, programs like this take years before you can determine how well they work.
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the majority of ATP in aerobic respiration is produced during…?
a) krebs cycle
b) electron transport chain
c) glycolysis
d) equal amounts of ATP are produced during each of these
e) AYP is not produced during any of these
Oxidative phosphorylation of ADP after the citric acid cycle (or krebs cycle). I think its 32. This is also called electron transport. Basically a proton gradient is formed over the inner mitochondrial membrane. The protons drive ATP sythetase like a river drives a mill, and ADP is made into ATP.
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