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Reback, Randall; Rockoff, Jonah; Schwartz, Heather L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
The most sweeping federal education law in decades, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, requires states to administer standardized exams and to punish schools that do not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for the fraction of students passing these exams. While the literature on school accountability is well-established, there exists no…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Achievement Gains, Federal Programs