No Child Left Behind Act Of 2001

Author : Paul E. Peterson,Martin R. West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 081579620X

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No Child Left Behind? by Paul E. Peterson,Martin R. West Pdf

The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan designed to ensure these standards are met. Students at schools that fail to meet those standards may leave for other schools, and schools not progressing adequately become subject to reorganization. The significance of the law lies less with federal dollar contributions than with the direction it gives to federal, state, and local school spending. It helps codify the movement toward common standards and school accountability. Yet NCLB will not transform American schools overnight. The first scholarly assessment of the new legislation, No Child Left Behind? breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability. Contributors examine the law's origins, the political and social forces that gave it shape, the potential issues that will surface with its implementation, and finally, the law's likely consequences for American education.

Author : Adam Gamoran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815730347

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Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap by Adam Gamoran Pdf

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the latest in more than two decades of federal efforts to raise educational standards and an even longer stream of initiatives to improve education for poor children. What lessons can we draw from these earlier efforts to help NCLB achieve its goals? In Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap, leading scholars in sociology, economics, psychology, and education policy take on this critical question. Armed with the latest data and up-to-date research syntheses, the authors show that standards-based reform has had some positive effects, particularly in the area of teacher quality. Moreover, some of the critics' greatest fears have not been realized: for example, retention rates have not shot upward. Yet the overall pace of improvement has been slow, owing in part to poor implementation. Based on these findings, the contributors offer recommendations for the implementation and impending reauthorization of NCLB. These proposals, such as national testing and a rethinking of achievement targets, are sure to be at the center of the upcoming debate. Contributors include Thomas Dee, Laura Desimone, George Farkas, Barbara Foorman, Brian Jacob, Robert M. Hauser, Paul Hill, Tom Loveless, Meredith Phillips, Andrew C. Porter, and Thomas Smith.

Author : Peter Wright,Pamela Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1892320002

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Wrightslaw Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2019 by Peter Wright,Pamela Wright Pdf

Wrightslaw Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2019 is designed to make it easier for you to stay up-to-date on new cases and developments in special education law.Learn about current and emerging issues in special education law, including:* All decisions in IDEA and Section 504 ADA cases by U.S. Courts of Appeals in 2019* How Courts of Appeals are interpreting the two 2017 decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court* Cases about discrimination in a daycare center, private schools, higher education, discrimination by licensing boards in national testing, damages, higher standards for IEPs and "least restrictive environment"* Tutorial about how to find relevant state and federal cases using your unique search terms

Author : United States. Department of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : PURD:32754075476766

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Building on Results by United States. Department of Education Pdf

Author : Richard D. Kahlenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSC:32106019868113

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Improving on No Child Left Behind by Richard D. Kahlenberg Pdf

"In Improving On No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track some of the nation's most respected authorities on education reform examine three central defects of the act: the under-funding of NCLB; the flawed implementation of the standards, testing, and accountability provisions; and major difficulties with the provisions that are designed to allow students to transfer out of failing public schools. The authors detail what needs to be addressed in each of these areas, and propose ways to fix the problems."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Damian P. Olivert
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 1594547327

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No Child Left Behind Act by Damian P. Olivert Pdf

On 8 January 2002, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, legislation to extend and revise the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), was signed into law as P.L. 107-110 (H.R. 1). This legislation extensively amends and re-authorises many of the programs of federal aid to elementary and secondary education. Major features of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 include the following: states will be required to implement standards-based assessments in reading and mathematics for pupils in each of grades 3-8 by the 2005-2006 school year, and at three grade levels in science by the 2007-2008 school year; grants to states for assessment development are authorised; all states will be required to participate in National Assessment of Educational Progress tests in 4th and 8th grade reading and mathematics every second year; states must develop adequate yearly progress (AYP) standards, incorporating a goal of all pupils reaching a proficient or advanced level of achievement within 12 years, and apply them to each public school, local education agency (LEA), and the state overall; and a sequence of consequences, including public school choice and supplemental services options, would

Author : Frederick M. Hess,Michael J. Petrilli
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 082047844X

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No Child Left Behind Primer by Frederick M. Hess,Michael J. Petrilli Pdf

Hess is a specialist in education policy at the American Enterprise Institute and Harvard U.; Petrilli is with the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a Washington-based school reform organization. They offer a concise guide to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), covering the history and key elements of the law, how it is intended to work, how i.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : UCR:31210018769495

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Higher Education Amendments of 1992 by United States Pdf

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Child abuse
ISBN : UCR:31210024926675

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National Child Protection Act of 1993 by United States Pdf

Author : Scott Abernathy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015068806697

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No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools by Scott Abernathy Pdf

This study looks at the successes and failures of one of the most ambitious and controversial educational initiaves since desegreagation--No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. NCLB's opponents criticize it as underfunded and unworkable, while supporters see it as a radical but necessary educational reform that evens the score between advantaged and disadvantaged students.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : PURD:32754070202928

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Children with social disabilities
ISBN : PURD:32754070364280

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Patrick J. McGuinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015064712105

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No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005 by Patrick J. McGuinn Pdf

Education is intimately connected to many of the most important and contentious questions confronting American society, from race to jobs to taxes, and the competitive pressures of the global economy have only enhanced its significance. Elementary and secondary schooling has long been the province of state and local governments; but when George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, it signaled an unprecedented expansion of the federal role in public education. This book provides the first balanced, in-depth analysis of how No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law. Patrick McGuinn, a political scientist with hands-on experience in secondary education, explains how this happened despite the country's long history of decentralized school governance and the longstanding opposition of both liberals and conservatives to an active, reform-oriented federal role in schools. His book provides the essential political context for understanding NCLB, the controversies surrounding its implementation, and forthcoming debates over its reauthorization. how the struggle to define the federal role in school reform took center stage in debates over the appropriate role of the government in promoting opportunity and social welfare. He places the evolution of the federal role in schools within the context of broader institutional, ideological, and political changes that have swept the nation since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, chronicles the concerns raised by the 1983 report A Nation at Risk, and shows how education became a major campaign issue for both parties in the 1990s. McGuinn argues that the emergence of swing issues such as education can facilitate major policy change even as they influence the direction of wider political debates and partisan conflict. McGuinn traces the Republican shift from seeking to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education to embracing federal leadership in school reform, then details the negotiations over NCLB, the forces that shaped its final provisions, and the ways in which the law constitutes a new federal education policy regime - against which states have now begun to rebel. and that only by understanding the unique dynamics of national education politics will reformers be able to craft a more effective national role in school reform.

Author : Deborah Meier
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807031518

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In Schools We Trust by Deborah Meier Pdf

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust. Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win our faith by showing they can do their job. But she argues just as fiercely that standardized testing is precisely the wrong way to that end. The tests themselves, she argues, cannot give the results they claim. And in the meantime, they undermine the kind of education we actually want. In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New York. These nationally acclaimed schools are built, famously, around trusting teachers-and students and parents-to use their own judgment. Meier traces the enormous educational value of trust; the crucial and complicated trust between parents and teachers; how teachers need to become better judges of each others' work; how race and class complicate trust at all levels; and how we can begin to 'scale up' from the kinds of successes she has created.

Author : Ronald C. Brady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X030203400

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Can Failing Schools be Fixed? by Ronald C. Brady Pdf

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires that all states install school & district accountability systems based on the results of student scores on annual tests. The goal is to press states & districts to act decisively to turn around failing schools & boost pupil achievement, particularly in reading & math. But little is known about what kinds of interventions are most likely to turn faltering schools into successful educational institutions. This report describes the interventions set forth for state & local policymakers as part of NCLB. It categorizes & reviews 17 interventions that have been attempted by states or school districts since 1989. Looks in detail at 3 interventions in: N.Y. State; Memphis, TN; & in Prince George's County, MD.