Standards-based reform and the poverty gap [electronic resource] : lessons for No Child Left Behind / Adam Gamoran, editor.
Gamoran, Adam, 1957-
2007
LB2806.22 .S736 2007eb
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Standards-based reform and the poverty gap [electronic resource] : lessons for No Child Left Behind / Adam Gamoran, editor.
ISBN
9780815730323 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815730322 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780815730330 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0815730330 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publication Details
Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.
Language
English
Description
viii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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LB2806.22 .S736 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
379.1/580973
Summary
"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 implementation of impending reauthorized NCLB"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gamoran, Adam, 1957-
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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.

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