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Direct linkMartin, Peter Clyde – Current Issues in Education, 2011
This article discusses how the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) accountability mechanism of No Child Left Behind makes use of supposedly objective standardized test scores to describe schools in a certain way when the very same results could serve to draw very different conclusions. Examining the proficiency scores of students from a specific middle…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Accountability, Educational Indicators
