No Child Left Behind And The Reduction Of The Achievement Gap

Author : Alan R. Sadovnik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135916888
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap written by Alan R. Sadovnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental collection presents the first-ever sociological analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act and its effects on children, teachers, parents, and schools. More importantly, these leading sociologists consider whether NLCB can or will accomplish its major goal: to eliminate the achievement gap by 2014. Based on theoretical and empirical research, the essays examine the history of federal educational policy and place NCLB in a larger sociological and historical context. Taking up a number of policy areas affected by the law—including accountability and assessment, curriculum and instruction, teacher quality, parental involvement, school choice and urban education—this book examines the effects of NCLB on different groups of students and schools and the ways in which school organization and structure affect achievement. No Child Left Behind concludes with a discussion of the important contributions of sociological research and sociological analysis integral to understanding the limits and possibilities of the law to reduce the achievement gap.

Author : Adam Gamoran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815730349
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap written by Adam Gamoran and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428926291
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No child left behind : communication from the President of the United States transmitting a report for nationwide education reform entitled, No child left behind. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428960643
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Child Left Behind A Parents Guide written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan R. Sadovnik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113591687X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap written by Alan R. Sadovnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental collection presents the first-ever sociological analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act and its effects on children, teachers, parents, and schools. More importantly, these leading sociologists consider whether NLCB can or will accomplish its major goal: to eliminate the achievement gap by 2014. Based on theoretical and empirical research, the essays examine the history of federal educational policy and place NCLB in a larger sociological and historical context. Taking up a number of policy areas affected by the law—including accountability and assessment, curriculum and instruction, teacher quality, parental involvement, school choice and urban education—this book examines the effects of NCLB on different groups of students and schools and the ways in which school organization and structure affect achievement. No Child Left Behind concludes with a discussion of the important contributions of sociological research and sociological analysis integral to understanding the limits and possibilities of the law to reduce the achievement gap.

Author : Nancy L. Damron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Has the Gap Narrowed written by Nancy L. Damron and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Meier
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807004596
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Children Left Behind written by Deborah Meier and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country. But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: * How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428925570
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No child left behind : a toolkit for teachers. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Schools written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeanne H. Ballantine
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 141295052X
Total Pages : 577 pages
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Download or read book Schools and Society written by Jeanne H. Ballantine and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the most recent theories, research, terms, concepts, ideas, and histories on educational leadership and school administration as taught in preparation programs and practiced in schools and colleges today.