Title: Archived: Introduction: No Child Left Behind
Headings: 
Supports learning in the early years, thereby preventing many learning difficulties that may arise later
Provides more information for parents about their child's progress
Alerts parents to important information on the performance of their child's school
Gives children and parents a lifeline
Improves teaching and learning by providing better information to teachers and principals
Ensures that teacher quality is a high priority
Gives more resources to schools
Allows more flexibility
Focuses on what works
Why No Child Left Behind Is Important to America
Federal Spending on K-12 Education under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and NAEP Reading Scores (Age 9)
United for Results
Because of No Child Left Behind:

Content: Parents will know their children's strengths and weaknesses and how well schools are performing; they will have other options and resources for helping their children if their schools are chronically in need of improvement. Teachers will have the training and resources they need for teaching effectively, using curricula that are grounded in scientifically based research; annual testing lets them know areas in which students need extra attention. Principals will have information they need to strengthen their schools' weaknesses and to put into practice methods and strategies backed by sound, scientific research. Superintendents will be able to see which of their schools and principals are doing the best job and which need help to improve. School boards will be able to measure how their districts are doing and to measure their districts in relation to others across the state; they will have more and better information on which to base decisions about priorities in their districts. Chief state school officers will know how the schools in their states and in other states are doing; they will be better able to pinpoint where guidance and resources are needed.