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Download full textWenglinsky, Harold – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 calls for improving test scores of minority students in third through eighth grades, making middle level schools a key venue for closing the racial gap in achievement. This study, by analyzing data on the 15,000 eighth graders who took the 2000 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in mathematics,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests
