A quality education that promotes learning among all students is a prerequisite for an economy that increases opportunity, prosperity, and growth. School accountability policies, in which school performance is evaluated based on identified metrics, have developed over the past few decades as a strategy central to assessing and achieving progress…

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Teacher Preparedness, Teacher Practices, and the Availability of Reading Remediation services on adequate yearly progress (AYP) in reading. Since the passage of No Child Left Behind (2001), accountability for school districts has increased dramatically and the standard measure of that…

What is homework? What value and benefit does it have for students? Some common perceptions from the students' perspective is that it is busy work, it takes away from other activities (i.e. sports, clubs, hanging out with friends, jobs, etc.), and/or it prevents them from getting as much sleep as they would like. From the teachers' perspective: it…