Title: Standards-based Reform and the Poverty Gap
Description: "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.
Subjects: Educational accountability, Educational change, Poor, Education, Academic achievement, United States, Finance, Educational Policy & Reform, General, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (United States), Poor, united states, Educational law and legislation, united states