Abstract This paper examined the problems in the current school reform movement, and shows what the government has done over the past twenty years to improve our school system. With the research gathered from numerous academic articles, this paper shows the positive and negative to current reform methods such as testing and accountability. It examines as the nine bills that Bill Clinton passed in 1993 and 1994. The paper discusses what is being done in the presently …showed first 75 words of 2066 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2066 total…begin with, “ the basics of reading and writing and also with the basics of character and discipline” (Bush, 2000, p.1). This is the right start if the educational system is to improve. Will our educational system ever be the best in the world? Right now we are far from that, but over time with the current reform movement and President Bush’s “Back to Basics” strategy our educational system will achieve number one status once again.