Standards-based reform and the poverty gap : lessons for No Child Left Behind /

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"With latest data and research, scholars study what lessons can be drawn from earlier efforts to help NCLB achieve its goals. Authors show that standards-based reform has had some positive effects and some of the critics' greatest fears have not been realized. Recommendations offered for i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gamoran, Adam, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2007.
Temas:
United States. > No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (United States)
Educational accountability > United States.
Educational change > United States.
Poor > Education > United States.
Academic achievement > United States.
Responsabilité du rendement (Éducation) > États-Unis.
Enseignement > Réforme > États-Unis.
Pauvres > Éducation > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Finance.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Academic achievement
Educational accountability
Educational change
Poor > Education
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : can standards-based reform help reduce the poverty gap in education? / Adam Gamoran
  • Standards-based educational reform is one important step toward reducing the achievement gap / Barbara R. Foorman, Sharon J. Kalinowski, and Waynel L. Sexton
  • How did the statewide assessment and accountability policies of the 1990s affect instructional quality in low-income elementary schools? / Meredith Phillips and Jennifer Flashman
  • Has NCLB improved teacher and teaching quality for disadvantaged students? / Laura M. Desimone, Thomas M. Smith, and David Frisvold
  • Grade retention in the age of standards-based reform / Robert M. Hauser, Carl B. Frederick, and Megan Andrew
  • Do high school exit exams influence educational attainment or labor market performance? / Thomas S. Dee and Brian A. Jacob
  • The role of tutoring in standards-based reform / George Farkas and Rachel E. Durham
  • NCLB school choice and children in poverty / Paul T. Hill
  • The peculiar politics of No Child Left Behind / Tom Loveless
  • NCLB lessons learned : implications for reauthorization / Andrew C. Porter.

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