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Direct linkMcNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2012
Given the flexibility to revise their academic goals under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, a vast majority of the states that received federal waivers are setting different expectations for different subgroups of students, an "Education Week" analysis shows. That marks a dramatic shift in policy and philosophy from the original law.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Expectation
Peer reviewedMartin, 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
Download full textJohnson, Karen E.; Peck, Kyle; Wise, John – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2007
In a survey of 30 Mid-Atlantic Region education leaders, improving the achievement of No Child Left Behind subgroups (low-income students, students with limited English proficiency, students with disabilities, and students in major racial and ethnic groups) was the top priority in Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey, despite concerns about the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Disabilities, Academic Achievement
