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Direct linkKim, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
No Child Left Behind and the Every Student Succeeds Act have made accountability central to conversations about education policy. But neither statute articulates a clear vision of what constitutes "quality" or "equity" in education, nor do they include a mechanism to ensure that schools have sufficient resources to pursue that…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Accountability
Hess, Frederick M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
By encouraging a single-minded focus on instructional leadership, the training, socializing, and mentoring of school leaders has unwittingly fostered a culture of caged leadership. Leaders are expected to succeed via culture, capacity building, coaching, and consensus--no matter the obstacles in their path. Those are all good things, the author…
Descriptors: Principals, Instructional Leadership, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Christie, Kathy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
In the first quarter of the 2004 legislative sessions, some states continued to amend existing laws to meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, while others began to move beyond compliance to improve the means by which they intend to leverage greater student achievement. Still others addressed health issues, fiscal officers,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Academic Achievement, Compliance (Legal)
Bracey, Gerald W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Presents conflicting legislation on calculator usage in California and Virginia, and summarizes research favoring students' use of calculators while taking tests and solving classroom exercises or real-world problems. Another research study shows that stayers in school choice programs are likely to have chosen the school, have friends in the…
Descriptors: Calculators, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Tests
Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Although Virginia's Governor Lowell Weicker comes from a privileged background, he has drawn himself close to the people. A liberal Republican with some strong conservative values, Weicker believes privilege means sacrifice in terms of time commitment and tax effort. Weicker has spearheaded legislation to benefit learning-disabled and economically…
Descriptors: Altruism, Child Advocacy, Conservatism, Disabilities
Duke, Daniel L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Recent studies of turnarounds of low-performing schools have focused on the factors that made their successes possible. The author of this article realizes that it would also be valuable to look at what made the schools decline in the first place and the factors that might hinder their transformation. He focuses on some of the aspects of the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Institutional Evaluation, Low Achievement, Underachievement
