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Direct linkErin J. Heys – Educational Policy, 2025
For decades, policymakers in the U.S. have leveraged accountability policy as a governing tool to lift school performance and close the achievement gap. Accountability become so widespread that it arguably became a "policy paradigm" with the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act in 2002. Yet after just 13 years of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
