Adequate Yearly Progress - Purpose

Purpose

The purpose of The No Child Left Behind Act is to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach. This is ensured through the use of academic assessments, teacher preparation and training, rigorous curriculum and adequate and proper instructional material that will in turn aid in performance on the challenging State academic standards that all students are to meet with proficiency. This process is meant to help meet the educational needs of low-achieving children in our Nation's poverty-stricken schools and have every school performing at a National standard level. If this is achieved, then NCLB is said to have "closed the gap". This means that the achievement gap between high and low performing schools and children will be less prominent and all will be achieving at the same level and standard throughout the Nation, thus there will be no child left behind and no schools identified as "schools in need of improvement".