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Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. – Education Next, 2006
No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the federal school-accountability law, is widely held to have accomplished one good thing: require states to publish test-score results in math and reading for each school in grades 3 through 8 and again in grade 10. The results appear to be telling parents whether their child's school is doing a better job than the…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Accountability, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement
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Skinner, David – Education Next, 2006
Newark, New Jersey, once called "The Worst American City," is a city that has lost 36 percent of its population since 1930 (from 442,000 to 280,000) and is now more than half black and nearly 40 percent poor. It is a city, reported the "New York Times," where "budgeting is a Rube Goldberg morass with a deficit…
Descriptors: African American Leadership, Grade 8, Grade 11, Mathematics Tests