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No Child Left Behind is a good start to creating an excellent education system, but as with all projects it will require to be continual reassessed and updated.

The Bill requires schools and teachers to be accountable and as much as teachers hate this it does mean that the teachers and schools must be proactive and work hard to improve standards, many schools and teachers often think the old ways are working so lets
stick at it. Providing teacher support, workshops and extra learning and providing extra support through additional professionals is the only way forward. Extra teachers to provide help in reading and money to purchase good quality and QUANTITY of reading schemes is always essential.

Tutors to help those in schools where they are failing is brilliant. What more could you want than one on one support for your child? Although, it may have been better to provide this to any child who was underachieving rather than just to schools that were failing.

Also, to pro actively get parents involved from the start is essential, so many parents are uninvolved or don't know how best to be involved that as long as this is thought through will be hugely beneficial to pupils, parents and schools.

However, only using proven methods to teach, hmm! how did these methods become proven if no research was ever done? New initiatives are good (as long as there is not too many) and new initiatives lead the way forward.

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