In 2001, the United States Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which prioritized standards-based education reform. Rather than impost a single national standard for education, this Act required individual states to establish measurable and observable goals for assessing high quality performance standards, intended to increase individual student outcomes. Federal funding for each state was contingent upon states providing assessments to students in selected grade levels. Since its inception, federal and state governments have created thousands of programs, costing eight hundred billion dollars nation-wide. After nearly fifteen years of criticism, largely due to sweeping programmatic failure, the Every Student Succeeds Act was passed by a bipartisan Congress in 2015, resulting in some states eliminating standards testing altogether.

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