Which act is also known as the Improving America's Schools Act?

• A. No Child Left Behind Act
• B. Every Student Succeeds Act
• C. Goals 2000: Educate America Act
• D. Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Answer: (C)

The key idea here is understanding how the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was structured. In that year, Congress passed two related measures as part of updating ESEA: the Improving America’s Schools Act, which focused on funding and school improvement, and Goals 2000: Educate America Act, which set national education goals and standards. Because they were part of the same reauthorization package, the act most closely associated with the name Improving America’s Schools Act is Goals 2000: Educate America Act. The other options refer to later reauthorizations (No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds Act) or to the original 1965 act itself, not the 1994 reauthorization package.