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Titolo: | Standards-based reform and the poverty gap : lessons for No Child Left Behind / / Adam Gamoran, editor |
Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | viii, 340 p. : ill |
Disciplina: | 379.1/580973 |
Soggetto topico: | Educational accountability - United States |
Educational change - United States | |
Poor - Education - United States | |
Academic achievement - United States | |
Altri autori: | GamoranAdam <1957-> |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Standards-based reform and the poverty gap |
ISBN: | 0-8157-3034-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816433403321 |
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