Standards-based reform and the poverty gap : lessons for No Child Left Behind / Adam Gamoran, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gamoran, Adam, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

United States.

Educational accountability--United States.

Educational accountability.

Poor--Education.

Poor.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Poor--Education--United States.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Physical Description:

viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815730322

9780815730323

0815730330

9780815730330

OCLC:

156811114