Reasons: In 2002, the Bush administration unveiled a plan to improve school education. They were determined to close the achievement gap between white students and students of color, while also aiming to support those who have been historically disadvantaged. Then, they implemented the NCLB law. Today, this law affects elementary and secondary education by imposing regulations that require all states to provide schools with a curriculum that improves students' understanding of math, reading, and science. To assess teachers' knowledge and exposure to these subjects, the federal government requires that all students take an assessment test as a way to inform the government of their progress. According to David Hursh, in his article titled Exacerbating inequality: the failed promise of the NCLB Act, last updated in September 2007, he stated that “NCLB requires that 95% of students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school are assessed through standardized tests aligned with challenging academic standards in math, reading and science.” http://www.wou.edu/~girodm/foundations/Hursh.pdf By 2014, all students in all states should be proficient in all subjects regardless of their mental, physical, and cultural impairments. NCLB requires that all students are equal in their ability to understand information and their ability to take a test. They assume that students are capable of being proficient in areas such as math, science, and reading. However, not everyone is good at math, and some children may be stronger in one area than the other. The “one size fits all” mentality does not solve the achievement gap, nor does it support those who are historically disadvantaged. On the website www.edweek.org, last updated July 2011,...... middle of paper......and, my sixth grade teacher taught us how to learn fractions using pancakes! Without this I would never have understood the concept. Conclusion Transitional Expression: To Sum Up The NCLB law is doing nothing for our school education in the United States. It affects children in grades k-6 in a negative way by assuming that they all learn the same way, which unfortunately puts teachers in a difficult situation where they must teach these students regardless of their rate of learning. This limits students' education and does not allow them to learn in the classroom. Rather, they learn how to learn strategically. In the book Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure, written by Charles Murray, the word intelligence describes something real and which varies from person to person is universal and as old as any understanding of the state of a human being.