 This vision was then carried forward by the Bush Administration in 2001 with the passing of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).Standards-based school reform has become a predominant issue facing public schools.By the 1996 National Education Summit, 44 governors and 50 corporate CEOs set the priorities (Achieve, 1998)

By 1998, almost every state had implemented or was in the process of implementing academic standards for their students in math and reading.