ABSTRACT
This chapter dives into the No Child Left Behind Law (NCLB)and the impact the law has had on education since the millennium, from holding schools responsible for students’ academic achievement to creating high-stakes testing. Also, this chapter takes a look into the evolution of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which was replaced by the NCLB law. The ESSA was reenacted by the Obama administration; the new law was supposed to grant educators more leniency in regard to accountability measures and still hold all students to a high standard. However, the education policies along with high-stakes testing and over-testing adversely impacted racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse students in special education.
