How No Child Left Behind Threatens Floridas Successful Education Reforms Backgrounder

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How "No Child Left Behind" Threatens Florida's Successful Education Reforms. Backgrounder

Author : Matthew Ladner
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Total Pages : 18 pages
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Download or read book How "No Child Left Behind" Threatens Florida's Successful Education Reforms. Backgrounder written by Matthew Ladner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews nationwide education reforms under No Child Left Behind and state reforms in Florida--comparing federal and state results. The paper examines the danger that federal regulations and incentives pose to testing and accountability systems in Florida and every other state. The limits of No Child Left Behind and the promise of Florida's success suggest that federal policies that give states greater authority to direct education reform hold promise for improving education when states and citizens commit to effective reforms. The paper states that as policymakers review No Child Left Behind, Congress and the Obama Administration should recognize three important lessons: (1) No Child Left Behind has failed to deliver meaningful improvement in student learning; (2) Florida's experience demonstrates the opportunity for state-directed education reform; and (3) NCLB's accountability regulations threaten to undermine state accountability reforms. Given these lessons, Members of Congress and state policymakers should re-evaluate federal and state governments' current approach to improving public education. At the federal level, Congress and the incoming Administration should limit federal policymaking authority and transfer greater power back to the state and local levels--and they should end perverse incentives for states to weaken state standards. State policymakers should learn from Florida's success and implement systemic education reform to hold schools and students accountable for results, expand parental choice, and improve school and teacher effectiveness. Appended to this document is: "Safe Harbor Schools in Florida," showing Florida School Districts Making Safe Harbor, by Year, Based Upon Overall Math and Reading Results Alone, 2003-2008. (Contains an executive summary and 27 notes.).

Closing the Racial Achievement Gap

Author : Matthew Ladner
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Total Pages : 14 pages
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Download or read book Closing the Racial Achievement Gap written by Matthew Ladner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An education gap between white students and their black and Hispanic peers is something to which most Americans have become accustomed. But this racial division of education--and hence of prospects for the future--is nothing less than tragic. The good news is that the racial divide in learning is a problem that can be fixed. Of course, it can only be fixed if education reform is approached in a commonsense and innovative way. Continuing to repeat the largely failed national policies and ever-increasing spending of the past decades is surely not common sense. One state, Florida, has demonstrated that meaningful academic improvement--for students of all races and economic backgrounds--is possible. In 1999, Florida enacted far-reaching K-12 education reform that includes public and private school choice, charter schools, virtual education, performance-based pay for teachers, grading of schools and districts, annual tests, curbing social promotion, and alternative teacher certification. As a result of parental choice, higher standards, accountability, and flexibility, Florida's Hispanic students are now outperforming or tied with the overall average for all students in 31 states. It is vital that national and state policymakers take the lessons of Florida's success to heart. The future of millions of American children depends on it. (Contains 28 footnotes.).

No child left behind : communication from the President of the United States transmitting a report for nationwide education reform entitled, No child left behind.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428926291
Total Pages : 35 pages
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Download or read book No child left behind : communication from the President of the United States transmitting a report for nationwide education reform entitled, No child left behind. written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Case of the No Child Left Behind Legislation

Author : Jerry Carlson
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1607527499
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Case of the No Child Left Behind Legislation written by Jerry Carlson and published by IAP. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Child Left Behind Primer

Author : Frederick M. Hess
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820478449
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book No Child Left Behind Primer written by Frederick M. Hess and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

No Child Left Behind?

Author : Brittany L. Resmann
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Total Pages : 305 pages
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Download or read book No Child Left Behind? written by Brittany L. Resmann and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated how education policy influences student success, and if there are linkages between K-12 education policy and higher education. Historically, education has primarily been a function of state and local governments. The role of the federal government drastically changed with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001. This thesis focused on the influence of No Child Behind on several indicators of student success in K-12 and postsecondary education. All fifty states were examined in this study. This approach is rather unusual since it is typical to focus on one state or a small group of states. In addition to the state level analyses, macro analyses were also conducted to generate sounder policy prescriptions. This study tested three primary research questions. (1) The first research question tested possible changes in several measures of student success since the implementation of No Child Left Behind. (2) The second research question analyzed the relationship between K-12 education policy and higher education. (3) The third research question addressed the possibility that state education reforms have had an impact on test scores, graduation rates, and college enrollment. After testing the three research questions the following results were found. (1) Findings showed that K-12 test scores have improved on the national level since the implementation of No Child Left Behind, but there are several states that have witnessed a decline in test scores since legislation was enacted. (2) There was no relationship between the state reforms and the variables that measured student success. Based on the findings, policy prescriptions were generated for both leaders within education and policymakers.

No child left behind? Why the one Florida equity in education a+plan is failing minorities

Author : Jonita Kehl-Simmons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Book Synopsis No child left behind? Why the one Florida equity in education a+plan is failing minorities by : Jonita Kehl-Simmons

Download or read book No child left behind? Why the one Florida equity in education a+plan is failing minorities written by Jonita Kehl-Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform

Author : Thomas Stewart Poetter
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Total Pages : 152 pages
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Download or read book No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform written by Thomas Stewart Poetter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform highlights the scholarship of eight doctoral students in curriculum and their professor, who took on the legal, political, philosophical, social, cultural, economic, and curricular assumptions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This book, the manifestation of their work, is a critical examination of the impact of the NCLB on the lives of children, families, and teachers; and the elusive, but powerful, dynamic found between the rhetorical machinations of the law and the ideological touchstones that dominate the American political terrain. This book openly challenges the law with arguments founded on solid research, scholarship, and data. No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform argues that this law is not only a bad idea for children, but also for teachers, parents, schools, and communities because it undermines good teaching through an over-emphasis on testing and measurement. NCLB also pits schools against each other in a competition for limited resources. The book argues that the law sets impossible goals, which further and unnecessarily defeat and deflate the institution of public education.

Many Children Left Behind

Author : Deborah Meier
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0807004596
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Many Children Left Behind written by Deborah Meier and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind

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Download or read book Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Testing requirements in No Child Left Behind are causing a "race to the bottom" that threatens to eliminate academic transparency about student performance, denying parents, citizens, and policymakers needed information on school performance. Congress should end federal goals for student testing and allow states to opt out of NCLB and reassert their policymaking authority.

Has No Child Left Behind Been Good for Education?

Author : Christina Fisanick
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780737739213
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Has No Child Left Behind Been Good for Education? written by Christina Fisanick and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenhaven Press's At Issue Series provides a wide range of opinions on individual social issues. Each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point out sources for further research. Enhancing critical thinking skills, each At Issue volume is an excellent research tool to help readers understand current social issues and prepare reports.

No Child Left Behind: Where Do We Go from Here?

Author : Krista Kafer
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Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book No Child Left Behind: Where Do We Go from Here? written by Krista Kafer and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication raises several points of discussion concerning the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and its future. Two years after its enactment, NCLB implementation proceeds by trial and error. Its ultimate success or failure remains unclear. Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and teacher quality requirements are not always compatible with existing state systems. These difficulties call into question the efficacy of establishing a federal standard to govern 93,000 public schools. Congress missed the opportunity to enact significant programmatic flexibility for states. Some districts have not given students in underperforming schools adequate access to better performing schools or tutoring, frustrating parents and threatening to stall the only market-driven engine in the act. The report asserts Congress should resist special interest demands for more funding, ensure effective implementation of parental choice and tutoring options, and enact greater flexibility in the next reauthorization. Sections in the report include: (1) Where We Have Been; (2) The Making of the NCLB Act; (3) The Hard Part: Implementation; (4) Second Thoughts; and (5) Some Next Steps.

Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Federal Management Or Citizen Ownership of K-12 Education?

Author : Eugene Hickok
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
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Download or read book Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind: Federal Management Or Citizen Ownership of K-12 Education? written by Eugene Hickok and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Congress considers reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 a fundamental question in the debate is whether to continue to increase federal government management authority over education or to restore citizen ownership of America's schools. Testing requirements in NCLB are having unintended consequences: by requiring states to test students annually and make annual progress toward a national goal of all students scoring proficient by 2014, the law has created a strong incentive for states to lower standards so that more students will pass. Researchers have termed this problem a "race to the bottom," which threatens to eliminate academic transparency about student performance, denying parents, citizens, and policymakers needed information on school performance. The authors advocate that Congress can address this problem by ending NCLB testing policies and allowing states to opt out of NCLB requirements. Parents, citizens, and policymakers would continue to receive the information about student and school performance through state testing. Restoring citizen ownership of American education is advocated as necessary for future efforts to strengthen American public schools. (Contains 16 footnotes and 3 charts.) [This document was produced by the Domestic Policy Studies Department, The Heritage Foundation.].

Radical Education Reform

Author : Janet Lea Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Radical Education Reform written by Janet Lea Burns and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scratching the Surface of "No Child Left Behind"

Author : Tom Schmidt
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Total Pages : 39 pages
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Download or read book Scratching the Surface of "No Child Left Behind" written by Tom Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the passage of Lyndon Johnson's 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, standards-based testing has become a government initiative and part of a massive educational reform throughout the country. By January 8 2002, President Bush signed "No Child Left Behind" into law as the latest iteration of Johnson's early educational reform. Under "NCLB" legislation, school districts in all states must implement a standards-based test accountability program that ensures the adequate yearly progress (AYP) of all schools in every district. The two fundamental aims of "NCLB" require that a) all states, school districts, and schools work towards closing the achievement gaps that exist primarily between high and low performing, minority and non-minority students; and b) holding states, school districts, and schools accountable by imposing penalties and government sanctions if AYP is not attained and the achievement gap persists. Currently in its fifth year, "NCLB" has generated much discussion, both positive and negative, as evidenced by the research literature. In this thesis I will analyze the impact of "NCLB"'s subgroup provision--requirement for the separation of disadvantaged student test scores in the accountability systems--contrasting its intended purpose of closing achievement gaps and holding schools accountable with what it has actually created in practice. First I will provide a brief history of the origins of the educational accountability movement that "NCLB" exemplifies. Second, I will address the chief educational problem of the "NCLB" policy. Instead of helping schools in greatest need--low-income schools with a high population of variously disadvantaged students classified as subgroup students--"NCLB" places these schools at a greater disadvantage for closing the achievement gaps and further diminishes the quality of education they offer. Lastly, I will discuss possible solutions to these problems and the larger issue of reforming "NCLB" based on the realities that have been presented since it implementation in 2002.

The Success of No Child Left Behind

Author : Jordan W. Nicholson
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Total Pages : 39 pages
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Download or read book The Success of No Child Left Behind written by Jordan W. Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), enacted into law in 2002, was the culmination of years of policy work and political posturing and represented the most sweeping changes to the American education system since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1964 (McGuinn, 2006). The analysis of this policy is particularly important because it will help future generations identify the positives and negatives of federal intervention in education. Beginning with the National Defense Education Act in 1958, the federal government has gradually increased its role in the oversight and administration of public education (Kessinger, 2011). Following landmark reforms like those enacted during Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" and Jimmy Carter's creation of the federal Department of Education, this intervention reached its apex in 2002 with the passage of NCLB and touched off a spirited debate across the country about how best to evaluate school performance (McGuinn, 2006). The act's provisions, including teacher evaluations; an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); and mandatory standardized testing, changed the landscape of public education. Whether these initiatives improved the quality of American education is the subject of intense debate (Moores, 2004), but there exists a measurable impact on test scores, which lends credence to the idea that it was a successful policy. While the stated goals of the policy were not met, evidence exists of significant progress towards American education improvement in the 21st century. [from author's abstract]

Liberating Learning

Author : Terry M. Moe
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470568097
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Learning written by Terry M. Moe and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Liberating Learning "Moe and Chubb have delivered a truly stunning book, rich with the prospect of how technology is already revolutionizing learning in communities from Midland, Pennsylvania to Gurgaon, India. At the same time, this is a sobering telling of the realpolitik of education, a battle in which the status quo is well defended. But most of all, this book is a call to action, a call to unleash the power of technological innovation to create an education system worthy of our aspirations and our childrens' dreams." Ted Mitchell, CEO of the New Schools Venture Fund "As long as we continue to educate students without regard for the way the real world works, we will continue to limit their choices. In Liberating Learning, Terry Moe and John Chubb push us to ask the questions we should be asking, to have the hard conversations about how far technology can go to advance student achievement in this country." Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of Education for the Washington, D.C. schools "A brilliant analysis of how technology is destined to transform America's schools for the better: not simply by generating new ways of learning, but also and surprisingly by unleashing forces that weaken its political opponents and open up the political process to educational change. A provocative, entirely novel vision of the future of American education." Rick Hanushek, the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University "Terry Moe and John Chubb, two long-time, astute observers of educational reform, see technology as the way to reverse decades of failed efforts. Technology will facilitate significantly more individualized student learning and perhaps most importantly, technology will make it harder and harder for the entrenched adult interests to block the reforms that are right for our kids. This is a provocative, informative and, ultimately, optimistic read, something we badly need in public education." Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City schools