NCLB at the crossroads
Subtitle: reexamining the federal effort to close the achievement gap
By: Michael A. Rebell, Jessica R. Wolff, editors.
Contributors: Rebell, Michael A.; Wolff, Jessica R.
Publisher: Teachers College, Columbia University
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780807749449
Subjects: United States; Educational accountability -- United States; Educational equalization -- United States; Academic achievement -- United States
Description: The editors of this book bring together the nation's leading researchers and thinkers in the field of educational equity to provide a range of provocative critiques that go well beyond what has already been said on the subject of No Child Left Behind. This book puts aside political rhetoric and quick-fix solutions to tackle the difficult questions about how to ensure meaningful educational opportunities for all children.--Book cover.
Table of contents: title: Our children's burden: a history of federal education policies that ask (now require) our public schools to solve social inequality / Amy Stuart Wells; title: The challenge and opportunity of African American educational achievement for the United States / Michael T. Nettles, Catherine M. Millett, and Hyeyoung Oh; title: Educational policy for linguistically and culturally diverse students: foundation or barrier? / Eugene E. Garcia; title: Standards, assessments, and accountability and students with disabilities: an evolving meaning of a "free and appropriate public education" / Margaret J. McLaughlin, Meredith Miceli, and Amanda Hoffman; title: "Proficiency for all"; title: an oxymoron / Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Tamara Wilder; title: Improving the accountability provisions of NCLB / Robert Linn; title: Standards, tests and NCLB: what might come next / Robert Schwartz; title: A federal foray into teacher certification: assessing the "highly qualified teacher" provision of NCLB / Susanna Loeb and Luke Miller; title: The problem of capacity in the (re) design of educational accountability systems / Richard Elmore; title: A vital and viable agenda for reauthorizing NCLB / Michael A. Rebell and Jessica R. Wolff.