One of society's known policies which was created for the enhancement of education systems and educators was "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB). This law was passed on January 23, 2001, it was proposed by George W. Bush after he took office. This law has created immense debate among instructors, parents, and other school officials in both positive and negative perspectives. Some officials see the NCLB policy as restricting because it refrains education from being diverse, 90% of what is taught in the classroom has to pertain with improving reading and math scores. This leaves little room for any instruction in other curricular objectives such as art, music or media. A former teacher by the name of Carla Watson, depicts how the faults of the NCLB law has caused her to lose interest in teaching. She states "From my experience of being an elementary school teacher at a low-performing urban school in Los Angeles, I can say that the pressure became so intense that we had to show how every single lesson we taught connected to a standard that was going to be tested. This meant that art, music, and even science and social studies were not a priority and were hardly ever taught. We were forced to spend ninety percent of the instructional time on reading and math. This made teaching boring for me and was a huge part of why I decided to leave the profession." (Economic Policy Institute). Although, the NCLB policy allowed students of very different demographic, geographic and psychographic backgrounds to improve their reading and math scores and not be left behind by others who the system seemed to work for.

"No Child Left Behind" had proven to show positive results across the board after it was implemented in the school systems. After the National Assessment of Education Progress was released in July 2005, it showed that nine-year olds had made more progress in reading test scores than the previous 28 years combined. It also depicted the highest math scores since 1973. So in many ways even though school instructors were under a lot pressure because their teaching methods would be questioned if results were not evident, the grades had shown improvement in the areas it was targeting.

This is just one of our modern society's way of improving our education system to assure that students in any location, with any background and lifestyle can leave any school with a proper education. According to "The Huffington Post", an article  titled "Education Policies of 2010", Mike Rose states "We need an education policy that is based on our best current knowledge of learning and teaching. We need to scrap the technocratic model of teacher effectiveness and training and replace it with a human capital model that offers a robust program of teacher education and development....we need an education policy that embeds economic goals within a civic and humane philosophy of education" (The Huffington Post). There are many other methods towards how education should be approached and it looks like through trial and error we will get to a solution that can serve to benefit both students and teachers.