ERIC Number: ED489176
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Sep
Pages: 49
Abstractor: ERIC
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Listening to Teachers: Classroom Realities and No Child Left Behind
Sunderman, Gail L.; Tracey, Christopher A.; Kim, Jimmy; Orfield, Gary
Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The)
This document reports on the findings from the "No Child Left Behind: The Teacher's Voice" survey, which grew out of the national study on the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). Since there is much in NCLB that is aimed at teachers, the authors wanted to know what teachers think about the law and how they, and their schools, are responding to its strategies for change. Thanks to the cooperation of two urban school districts in Fresno, California and Richmond, Virginia, the authors obtained survey responses from two groups of teachers on opposite ends of the country. These two school districts serve many low-income and minority students, with one serving mostly Latino students and the other mostly African-American students, and each operates within a very different state policy and reform context. The response rate of the teachers to the survey was 77.4%. The survey was administered in May-June 2004.
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys, Urban Schools, School Districts
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY.; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint, MI.; National Education Association, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Harvard Civil Rights Project, Cambridge, MA.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: No Child Left Behind Act 2001
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