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How Feasible Is Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)? Simulations of School AYP "Uniform Averaging" and "Safe Harbor" under the No Child Left Behind Act
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Lee, Jaekyung – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) requires that schools make "adequate yearly progress" (AYP) towards the goal of having 100 percent of their students become proficient by year 2013-14. Through simulation analyses of Maine and Kentucky school performance data collected during the 1990s, this study investigates how feasible…
Descriptors: Simulation, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
Evaluating Rural Progress in Mathematics Achievement: Threats to the Validity of "Adequate Yearly Progress"
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Lee, Jaekyung – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
This article examines major threats to the validity of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) in the context of rural schools. Although rural students and their schools made significant academic progress in the past on national and state assessments, the current goal of AYP turns out to be highly unrealistic for them unless states set far lower…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Improvement, Mathematics Achievement, Rural Education