No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools write by Scott Abernathy. This book was released on 2007-03-08. No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why NCLB will fail to close the achievement gap--and what we can do about it
No Child Left Behind Primer
No Child Left Behind Primer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Child Left Behind Primer write by Frederick M. Hess. This book was released on 2006. No Child Left Behind Primer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hess is a specialist in education policy at the American Enterprise Institute and Harvard U.; Petrilli is with the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a Washington-based school reform organization. They offer a concise guide to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), covering the history and key elements of the law, how it is intended to work, how i.
Many Children Left Behind
Many Children Left Behind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Many Children Left Behind write by Deborah Meier. This book was released on 2004-09-29. Many Children Left Behind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country. But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: * How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.
No Child Left Behind
No Child Left Behind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook No Child Left Behind write by William Hayes. This book was released on 2008-08-14. No Child Left Behind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While few would quarrel with the goal of the No Child Left Behind legislation, the nation is badly divided over whether the law is having a positive effect on our schools. At the same time, it is also true that most Americans, including many professional educators, have only a limited understanding of the content and scope of the legislation. As we are currently engaged in a national debate about the future role of the federal government in the field of education, it is essential that people become better informed about the history, content, and results of No Child Left Behind. This book is a valuable tool informing the current discussion on the reauthorization of the law. As a result, the reader will be better able to make up his own mind as to the direction we should take as a nation in pursuing the noble objective of ensuring that no child is left behind.
Saving Our Schools
Saving Our Schools - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saving Our Schools write by Kenneth S. Goodman. This book was released on 2004. Saving Our Schools available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Saving Our Schools exposes the ugly side of President George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" mandate, which has threatened to close more than 6,000 public schools, to the detriment of dedicated teachers and disadvantaged children alike. Revealing how NCLB forces schools with strictly limited resources to teach its children test-taking skills in a desperate bid to pass high-stakes standardized testing, and how the government blacklists successful professors, institutions, and methods that balk the NCLB party line, and much more, Saving Our Schools warns of an immediate threat to the integrity of public education and urges the reader to take action. An eye-opening social commentary, of keen importance in determining the nation's future. -Midwest Book Review
