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Education Reform in the American States (Paperback, New)
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Education Reform in the American States (Paperback, New)
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Education Reform in the American States is a timely evaluation of
the accountability movement in American public education,
culminating in the No Child Left Behind Act, federal legislation of
2002. The authors treat the current accountability movement,
placing it in historical context and addressing the evolution in
public education policymaking from the overwhelming emphasis on
state and local discretion to increasing federal oversight and
mandates related to federal funding. They provide case studies of
the educational accountability movements in nine states and analyze
the factors and forces which explain progress in achievement levels
as measured on standardized tests and the states' prospects for
meeting their NCLB targets. The book and the individual case
studies acknowledge the merits of NCLB while exposing several
significant flaws and unintended harmful consequences of the act,
particularly its incentives for states to lower their standards in
order to meet annual yearly progress targets and its threat to
withdraw federal funds from districts with the highest percentage
of disadvantaged students.The audience for this study includes
local, state and federal education policyrnakers; administrators
and instructors in schools of education and other teaching
programs, educators; and the general public.
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