Providing a comprehensive evaluation of NCLB, this book examines test-based accountability, considers state-level capacity to carry out mandates, and discusses ideas for improving the law.
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“An important contribution to the field.” (Nora Friedman, Principal )
“This text offers valuable information for understanding the intent of NCLB, the positive effects of the legislation, the shortcomings of NCLB as currently authorized, and specific recommendations for improvements.” (Dolores Gribouski, Principal )
"Useful, timely, and enlightening. A good compilation of well-researched articles that need to be read by the field." (Bonnie Tryon, Principal )
“This text offers valuable information for understanding the intent of NCLB, the positive effects of the legislation, the shortcomings of NCLB as currently authorized, and specific recommendations for improvements.” (Dolores Gribouski, Principal )
"Useful, timely, and enlightening. A good compilation of well-researched articles that need to be read by the field." (Bonnie Tryon, Principal )
About the Author
Gail L. Sunderman is a senior research associate in K–12 Education for the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Her research focuses on educational policy and politics, and urban school reform, including the development and implementation of education policy and the impact of policy on the educational opportunities for at-risk students. At the Civil Rights Project, she is project director on a five-year study examining the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and is coauthor of the book, NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons from the Field, also from Corwin Press. Prior research includes studies on the implementation of Title I schoolwide programs, governance reform in the Chicago Public Schools, and understanding institutional and organizational constraints on implementing school reform initiatives. Her work has appeared in Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, and Educational Researcher. She is a former Fulbright scholar and received her PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.
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school reform, continuous school improvement, school accountability, language minority learners, proficiency trends, nonfederal revenue, geographic cost differences, pending reauthorization, weighted pupil, proficient achievement, interstate inequality, disaggregated reporting, score inflation, universal proficiency, interstate disparities, grade eight reading, improving high schools, state assessment results, testing rigor, percent proficient, state fiscal capacity, percent proficiency, intervention burden, schools serving students, proficiency rates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, State Capacity, Department of Education, New York, Safe Harbor, Reforming the Nation's Lowest-Performing High Schools, New Mexico, Two Takes, West Virginia, New Jersey, Education Policy, Improve High School Graduation Rates, African American, North Carolina, Academic Improvement, Education Under, School Finance, South Carolina, Census Bureau, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Illinois State Board of Education, State Proficiency Trends, Education Trust, Year Test Browse Sample Pages:
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school reform, continuous school improvement, school accountability, language minority learners, proficiency trends, nonfederal revenue, geographic cost differences, pending reauthorization, weighted pupil, proficient achievement, interstate inequality, disaggregated reporting, score inflation, universal proficiency, interstate disparities, grade eight reading, improving high schools, state assessment results, testing rigor, percent proficient, state fiscal capacity, percent proficiency, intervention burden, schools serving students, proficiency rates Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, State Capacity, Department of Education, New York, Safe Harbor, Reforming the Nation's Lowest-Performing High Schools, New Mexico, Two Takes, West Virginia, New Jersey, Education Policy, Improve High School Graduation Rates, African American, North Carolina, Academic Improvement, Education Under, School Finance, South Carolina, Census Bureau, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Illinois State Board of Education, State Proficiency Trends, Education Trust, Year Test Browse Sample Pages:
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