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: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780815770282
Subjects: Organization & management of education; United States; Government - U.S. Government; Educational accountability; Politics / Current Events; Standards; Education; USA; Law and legislation; Government - Legislative Branch; Public Policy - Social Policy; 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.
Description: "The first scholarly assessment of the new legislation, No Child Left Behind? breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability. Contributors examine the law's origins, the political and social forces that gave it shape, the potential issues that will surface with its implementation, and finally, the law's likely consequences for American education."--BOOK JACKET.