Standards-based reform and the poverty gap : lessons for No Child Left Behind / / Adam Gamoran, editor.
"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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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 340 p. :; ill. |
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Table of 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.