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Download full textLester, Patrick – Online Submission, 2018
Persistently low-performing schools have been repeatedly targeted for comprehensive reform for more than two decades, usually with poor results. These efforts have suffered, however, because they were often poorly implemented or insufficiently grounded in rigorous research. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), enacted in 2015, provides a…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Gauthier, Karey Rose – Online Submission, 2009
The internet continues to provide new and interesting solutions to age-old problems; this paper explores how education could benefit from online solutions. The history of public education in the U.S. is fractured at best, based on a system reliant on state and local control. As new legislation came into place to meet the needs of civil rights…
Descriptors: Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Educational History
Savich, Carl – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this paper was to analyze the court case Pontiac v. Spellings, a legal challenge to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act filed in 2005. The methodology was to examine and analyze the briefs filed and the court decisions to analyze the legal arguments made by the parties to the lawsuit. The results were that the U.S. Circuit Court for…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, School Districts, Court Litigation, Federal Government
Belshaw, Scott H.; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2007
In 1972 the federal government created the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act that procured funding for various governmental programs to combat the sudden increase in juvenile crime. A provision of this Act set out the creation of mentoring programs to help decrease the juvenile crime rate and dropout rates in secondary schools. This…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Prevention, Mentors, Federal Government
Nolan, Joseph E. – Online Submission, 2004
The United States Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is 30 years of age. IDEA affords individuals with physical or cognitive disabilities (through age 21) a free appropriate public education, an individualized education plan, and many accommodations in an attempt to include those with disabilities in the educational experience.…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, Court Litigation, Public Education
Pinder, Patrice Juliet – Online Submission, 2008
States are establishing high stakes assessments to serve as a measurement tool of students' academic abilities. This study essentially explored and sought to understand some of Maryland's mathematics and science practitioners' perspectives on increase testing, and the No Child left Behind (NCLB) Act. Basically, the study sought to understand and…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Test Items, Testing, Federal Government
