Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a measurement defined by the United States federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows the U.S. Department of Education to determine how every public school and school district in the country is performing academically according to results on standardized tests. AYP has been identified as one of the sources of controversy surrounding George W. Bush administration's Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Private schools do not have to make AYP.
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Famous quotes containing the words adequate, yearly and/or progress:
“Remorse is cureless—the Disease
Not even God—can heal—
For ‘tis His institution—and
The Adequate of Hell—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“What is last year’s snow to me,
Last year’s anything? The tree
Budding yearly must forget
How its past arose or set—”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
“Making such difference ‘twixt wake and sleep
As is the difference betwixt day and night
The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team
Begins his golden progress in the east.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)