This issue of the Brookings Papers on Education Policy, the eighth volume springing from a series of annual meetings sponsored by the Brookings Institution to examine specific educational issues, takes a step back to look at major reforms implemented over the last twenty years that have provided results or, because they are only recently in place, appear to hold promise for the future of education in the United States.
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Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Educational Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, is the author of numerous books, including The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf, 2003), Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform (Simon & Schuster, 2001), and National Standards in American Education: A Citizen’s Guide (Brookings, 1995).
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persistently poor readers, federal education research, coercive accountability, scientifically based reading research, nonimpaired readers, education management organizations, external exit exams, nonexperimental research designs, minimum competency exams, school choice policies, randomized field trials, voucher laws, education policy research, student accountability, school choice programs, retained students, charter schools, client schools, nonexperimental methods, school accountability, reading intervention, accountability reforms, nonrandomized trials, school test scores, accountability systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Department of Education, United States, Reading First, Diane Ravitch, National Heritage, Institute of Education Sciences, African American, Education Week, Brian Jacob, District of Columbia, Tom Loveless, National Assessment of Educational Progress, National Reading Panel, Advantage Schools, Brown Center, Education Polic, Reid Lyon, San Francisco, Harvard University Press, National Institutes of Health, President George, Preventing Reading Difficulties, America's Schools, American Federation of Teachers New!
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New York, Department of Education, United States, Reading First, Diane Ravitch, National Heritage, Institute of Education Sciences, African American, Education Week, Brian Jacob, District of Columbia, Tom Loveless, National Assessment of Educational Progress, National Reading Panel, Advantage Schools, Brown Center, Education Polic, Reid Lyon, San Francisco, Harvard University Press, National Institutes of Health, President George, Preventing Reading Difficulties, America's Schools, American Federation of Teachers New!
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- School Accountability (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) by Williamson M. Evers on page 42, page 44, and page 85
- High School Achievement by James Coleman on page 169, page 171, and page 172
- Schools, Vouchers, and the American Public by Terry M. Moe on page 170, page 171, and page 172
- Black-White Test Score Gap by Christopher Jencks on page 81, and page 169
- No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom on page 134, and page 169
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