Encouraging. Freedom. and. Accountability. (Title VII) ... establish a system for how states and school districts will be held accountable for improving student achievement. ... Accountability for student results is expected in return.
The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s.
... education officials are considering raising the passing grade for the exam. State Education Commissioner David Driscoll and Board ofEducation chairman James Peyser said the passing grade needs to be 81 MANY CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND.
Here, in a bold and engaging new book, Dr. James Comer reclaims this now-famous exhortation as a tool for positive and substantive change.
Teachers, professors, policymakers, and parents—this is the one book about NCLB you ought to read.” —James E. Ryan, William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia School of Law This far ...
The No Child Left Behind Act is confusing to parents, educators, administrators, advocates, and most attorneys. This book provides a clear roadmap to the law and how to get better...
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...
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Distinguished historian and policy analyst Maris Vinovskis examines federal K–12 education policies, beginning with the publication of A Nation at Risk and focusing on the National Education Goals, America 2000,...
Teaching black males: Lessons from the experts. In: C. P. Vernon & E. D. James (Eds), African American males in school and society: Practices and policies for effective education (Forwarded by Edmund W. Gordon, pp. 8–19).
A political history of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 details how the federal government's involvement in financial support for K-12 education increased as a result of liberal and conservative compromises.