No Child Left Behind?
Subtitle: The Politics and Practice of School Accountability
Contributors: Paul E. Peterson (Editor); Martin R. West (Editor)
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780815770299
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Standards; Government - U.S. Government; Educational accountability; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - Social Policy; Education; USA; Law and legislation; Government - Legislative Branch; United States; Administration - General; Federal aid to education
First sentence: As a path breaker, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the federal legislation signed into law in January 2002, stands alongside the pioneering compensatory and special education laws enacted in 1965 and 1974.