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No child left behind and the public schools / Scott Franklin Abernathy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abernathy, Scott F., 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
- United States.
- Educational accountability--United States.
- Educational accountability.
- Education--Standards--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Standards.
- Public schools--United States.
- Public schools.
- Federal aid to education--United States.
- Federal aid to education.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 1 The Best-Laid Plans 1
- 2 The Problem of Quality 25
- 3 Making the Grade (or Not): Success and Failure in NCLB's World 46
- 4 Top-Down and Bottom-Up: NCLB, Charter Schools, and the Public School Principalship 74
- 5 Rethinking Assessment 107
- 6 Carrots, Sticks, and Unbroken Windows: Making NCLB Live Up to Its Promises 130
- Appendix Supplementary Tables 151.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 0472099795
- 9780472099795
- 0472069799
- 9780472069798
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.184344
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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