The myth and reality of No Child Left Behind
Subtitle: public education and high stakes assessment : a report issued on behalf of National-Louis University, 2008
By: edited by Todd Alan Price and Elizabeth Peterson.
Contributors: Price, Todd Alan.; Peterson, Elizabeth A., 1956-; National-Louis University.
Publisher: University Press of America; UPA
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780761843146; 9780761843153
Subjects: United States; Educational accountability -- United States; Educational evaluation -- United States; Educational change -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The book of testing / Todd Alan Price; title: The chicken wins : the history of assessment / James Kusch; title: ETS and the American dream / Alice Bicudo; title: Fuzzy math : missing tests, missing students and missing the mark / Todd Alan Price; title: Drop out or pushed out? Who's counted out in high stakes testing / Elizabeth Peterson; title: English language learners in an era of NCLB / Kristin Lems and Leah D. Miller; title: Who is being left behind? / Martha Casazza and Laura Bauer; title: Public education and privatization in the ownership society / Stephen Thompson; title: Hawaii, the fiftieth state : a case study of the plantation blues / Nancy Stone; title: The modification of school improvement and staff development efforts in repsone to the failure to make adequate yearly progress / John W. Hunt; title: Unintended consequeneces : the teacher's story / Anne Grall Reichel; title: A ray of hope : service learning insures success for all / Virginia Jagla.