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From:District Administration (Vol. 41, Issue 9)Problem: An ever growing number of English-Language Learners entering the Salida Union School District in California had school officials trying to find a way to raise students' academic performance scores....
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From:Teaching and Learning (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 continues to have a profound effect on education. Not only is it impacting how student success is measured and described, it is also influencing what and how teachers teach. In this...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 28, Issue 20)Even though the pending bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA, is rife with references to "college and career readiness," the actual provisions of the bill do little to ensure that...
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From:Radical Teacher (Issue 94) Peer-ReviewedSchool reform has been a major buzzword in education in the United States for the last ten years since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was passed by George W. Bush in 2002. Across the political spectrum, NCLB is regarded as...
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From:Journal of School Leadership (Vol. 19, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThrough case studies of 10 elementary schools in Chicago, this article examines principal leadership in low-performing schools. The data include 331 interviews with teachers, administrators, external partners, and...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAdversarial legalism, which has become the American way of government, is likely sooner or later to be wedded to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which embodies America's hope for closing the achievement gap. Two advocacy...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe basics of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)--adequate yearly progress benchmarks, provision of supplemental services, and a "highly qualified" teacher in every classroom--are known. And the intense scrutiny of the "how...
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From:T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Vol. 32, Issue 12)Under Deputy Secretary of Education Michael Golden's leadership, Pennsylvania has made great strides over the last two years developing useful informational tools to assist the Commonwealth's many school districts....
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From:Teacher Education Quarterly (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLet's face it. Testing has been part of the educational landscape our entire lives. Testing has been used to determine our fate in K-12 education and the types of doors, if any, open to us in college, graduate school,...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 21, Issue 3)WASHINGTON Half or more of Black, Hispanic and American Indian youth in the United States are getting left behind before high-school graduation, according to a new study. The result is a "hidden crisis" that is...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 41, Issue 6)Students in most districts are scoring higher on standardized tests and the achievement gap is narrowing under No Child Left Behind, according to a new survey by the Center on Education Policy. But in From the Capital...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 43, Issue 7)WHEN PASCAL D. FORGIONE Jr., the Austin (Texas) Independent School District superintendent of schools, discusses the federal No Child Left Behind law, he has a lot to say. Many school administrators, including Forgione,...
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From:T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Vol. 32, Issue 5)To help meet the demands of No Child Left Behind, Skyward Inc. (www.skyward.com) has launched EduTrack and SumIt systems to help effectively manage a district's student assessment, state-prescribed instructional...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 43, Issue 1)Some school districts and states appear to be cheating on test scores to meet achievement requirements under the No Child Left Behind law, and legislators will look into it when they consider reauthorization of NCLB...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 7, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRegarding the forum, "National Standards: Should the Federal Government Tell Schools What to Teach?" (Fall 2006), the greater the centralization of school decisions nationwide, the lower is the possibility of excellence...
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From:Re:view (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIf nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies. --Anonymous Our world is changing every day. The changes come in many shapes and forms: some are small, personal, and incremental; others are of cataclysmic...
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From:Administrative Law Review (Vol. 67, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION In 2009, a working group of state governors and superintendents of education convened to develop a set of common education standards, which were released in 2010 as the Common Core State Standards...
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From:T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Vol. 43, Issue 1)THE STATED GOALS of No Child Left Behind were noble ones, in keeping with the progressive aims of the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Who doesn't believe, after all, that all American children should be...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 8, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIncreasingly frequent journalistic accounts report that schools are responding to No Child Left Behind (NCLB) by engaging in what has come to be known as "educational triage." Although these accounts rely almost...