1956 American education act

The Education Law is a landmark strategic thought formulated by the American government to improve students' basic abilities such as reading, writing and calculating, improve teaching quality, rectify school education order, improve the effective utilization of educational resources and eliminate educational inequality. This is the most important education reform bill in America.

Its main content is: 1. Establish a performance responsibility system. States, regions and schools must take improving students' grades as an important task, and those with excellent grades will be rewarded, while those with poor grades will be punished. Students in grades 3-8 (equivalent to graduating from junior high school in China) should take the national annual reading and mathematics examination, and their scores should be combined with criticism of the educational effect of the school. 2. In order to curb bureaucratic habits, states and school districts have greater flexibility and autonomy. 3. Increase mobile funds at local level, improve teaching conditions and improve teaching quality. 4. Give parents the right to know about their children's school. Schools with poor grades must give students the opportunity to choose another school.

Its priority policies are: improving the academic performance of disadvantaged students; Improve the quality of teachers; Improve the English level of students with low English level; Improve more information for parents to choose and promote the development of innovative projects; Building safety schools; Advocate freedom and responsibility.

This bill can be traced back to the Primary and Secondary Education Act signed by President Johnson in 1965 until the Strategic Plan for 2002-2007 signed by President Bush in 2002, the core of which is the full implementation of the NCLB Act. In the past five years, the United States has implemented state and national entrance examinations since the third grade of primary school. Except for a few specially approved students, all students in each state should take the state examination or national examination as the unit, and the examination results should be used as the basis for promotion and re-reading. The examination results of each school can be found on the website of the education department. Research shows that the implementation of NCLB has achieved remarkable results in improving students' reading and math scores, especially those with learning disabilities. The data shows that reading and math scores have improved significantly, and the gap between white students, black students and Hispanic students has also narrowed, reaching the expected goal to some extent. Most Americans, especially low-income ethnic minorities, agree with the bill. But there are also some different views, such as requiring students to make certain progress every year, and the number of people taking the exam is not less than 95%, and so on. Some good schools may also be labeled as rectification because of such regulations, and even be punished for it. So many people also question the assessment, standards and progress.

In China, education reform has also gone through many periods. During the ten-year Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, China was in the forefront of politics. At that time, young people were asked to put a firm and correct political direction first, and hard work was the point of no return. This was incorrect and should be criticized. 1977 after the resumption of the college entrance examination, China has entered a "scientific spring" and its basic education has entered a period of stable development. Learning has changed life, knowledge has changed fate and become * * * knowledge. However, the limitations of educational resources in China led to fierce competition, which pushed the exam-oriented education to the peak, deleted the content unrelated to the exam and cancelled the activities unrelated to the college entrance examination. In the 1990s, most children were only children, and their parents wanted their children to succeed. However, they lack theory and experience in educating children. As a result, there have been several incidents in which children committed suicide because of study pressure, so the whole country began to carry out quality education campaigns. In the process of implementing the new curriculum standards, some areas even canceled the unified examination for primary schools for a time, and even set the homework time artificially. We also found that students' burden reduction aborted under repeated bans. In fact, simply limiting the study time is not conducive to the improvement of students' level. Parents do not agree with this kind of burden reduction. The reform of education should enable students to improve their ability in the process of mastering knowledge, rather than simply limiting homework time and examination times. When we gave up the magic weapon of unified examination, the United States implemented it in the form of a bill, which deserves our deep consideration.

We can see many touching things in American schools that implement the NCLB Act. In some classes, we can also see a teaching assistant helping several new immigrants with mental retardation, disability or poor English ability to learn knowledge. Class teaching in American schools is based on small class system. In new york, it is illegal to have no more than 34 students in a class. In fact, many subjects in many schools, especially private schools, have classes with no more than 20 students, so teachers can take better care of each student in teaching. In the United States, in the basic education stage (no more than 265,438+0 years old), students can enjoy free education in public schools, and they can never charge any money from students and parents. Tuition is free, and computers, audio equipment, books, textbooks, stationery and venues provided by the school for students are all free. Breakfast and lunch for low-income students are also free, and they must not be charged in disguise. In China, there is not only a lack of special education, but also a group of children are gradually abandoned by schools, teachers, parents and society in normal education, from primary school to high school. The financial resources, material resources and energy of the state, schools and teachers are all placed on students who have the hope of further study. There are generally more than 50 classes in China, and teachers in ordinary schools can't solve the problem of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude. To realize small class teaching, the state must invest heavily in education. Compared with the GDP of 8% in the United States, China spends less than 4%, which makes people feel helpless. In recent years, China has implemented free education in compulsory education, but some backward areas have not done a satisfactory job in ensuring funds. Even in the low-level education investment, the waste of education funds has reached an alarming level, and the problem of education corruption is also very serious. Whether we should learn the American NCLB concept, how to learn it and what kind of effect we should achieve are all issues worth discussing.