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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       Subjects     United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.     Educational accountability -- United States.     Educational change -- United States.     Poor -- Education -- United States.     Academic achievement -- United States.     Browse Catalog       by title:      Standards-based refo...         MARC Display

Standards-based reform and the poverty gap : lessons for No Child Left Behind / Adam Gamoran, editor. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007. Subjects United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.   Educational accountability -- United States.   Educational change -- United States.   Poor -- Education -- United States.   Academic achievement -- United States. ISBN:  9780815730323 (cloth : alk. paper) 0815730322 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780815730330 (pbk. : alk. paper) : 0815730330 (pbk. : alk. paper) Description:  viii, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents:  Introduction : can standards-based reform help reduce the poverty gap in education? / Adam Gamoran -- Standards-based educational reform is one important step toward reducing the achievement gap / Barbara R. Foorman, Sharon J. Kalinowski, and Waynel L. Sexton -- How did the statewide assessment and accountability policies of the 1990s affect instructional quality in low-income elementary schools? / Meredith Phillips and Jennifer Flashman -- Has NCLB improved teacher and teaching quality for disadvantaged students? / Laura M. Desimone, Thomas M. Smith, and David Frisvold -- Grade retention in the age of standards-based reform / Robert M. Hauser, Carl B. Frederick, and Megan Andrew -- Do high school exit exams influence educational attainment or labor market performance? / Thomas S. Dee and Brian A. Jacob -- The role of tutoring in standards-based reform / George Farkas and Rachel E. Durham -- NCLB school choice and children in poverty / Paul T. Hill -- The peculiar politics of No Child Left Behind / Tom Loveless -- NCLB lessons learned : implications for reauthorization / Andrew C. Porter. Requests:  0 Summary:  "With latest data and research, scholars study what lessons can be drawn from earlier efforts to help NCLB achieve its goals. Authors show that standards-based reform has had some positive effects and some of the critics' greatest fears have not been realized. Recommendations offered for implementation of impending reauthorized NCLB"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 379.15809 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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