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Direct linkEdmondson, Jacqueline; Shannon, Patrick – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
Case study of a poor, rural Pennsylvania school district's experience with the Reading First initiative illustrates how the No Child Left Behind Act confines districts to a few federally prescribed, "scientifically proven" curricula that ignore local conditions. Sanctioned schools are negatively labeled but receive inadequate funding,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Criticism, Educational Policy
