Holding NCLB Accountable: Achieving Accountability, Equity, & School Reform / Edition 1

by Gail L. Sunderman

Overview

Providing a comprehensive evaluation of NCLB, this book examines test-based accountability, considers state-level capacity to carry out mandates, and discusses ideas for improving the law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412957885
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/13/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gail L. Sunderman is a senior research associate in K–12 Education for the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Her research focuses on educational policy and politics, and urban school reform, including the development and implementation of education policy and the impact of policy on the educational opportunities for at-risk students. At the Civil Rights Project, she is project director on a five-year study examining the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and is coauthor of the book, NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons from the Field, also from Corwin Press. Prior research includes studies on the implementation of Title I schoolwide programs, governance reform in the Chicago Public Schools, and understanding institutional and organizational constraints on implementing school reform initiatives. Her work has appeared in Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, and Educational Researcher. She is a former Fulbright scholar and received her Ph D in political science from the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
About the Editor
About the Contributors
Introduction
Part I. NCLB and Accountability
1. The Pending Reauthorization of NCLB: An Opportunity to Rethink the Basic Strategy - Daniel Koretz
2. Toward a More Effective Definition of Adequate Yearly Progress - Robert L. Linn
3. Beyond Standardization in School Accountability - Mindy L. Kornhaber
4. Promises and Pitfalls: Implications of No Child Left Behind for Defining, Assessing, and Serving English Language Learners - Michael J. Kieffer, Nonie K. Lesaux, Catherine E. Snow
Part II. Evidence on How NCLB Is Working
5. Tracking Achievement Gaps and Assessing the Impact of NCLB on the Gaps: An In-Depth Look Into National and State Reading and Math Outcome Trends - Jaekyung Lee
6. Evidence on Education Under NCLB (and How Florida Boosted NAEP Scores and Reduced the Race Gap) - Walter M. Haney
Part III. State Capacity to Implement NCLB
7. Interstate Inequality in Educational Opportunity - Goodwin Liu
8. Massive Responsibilities and Limited Resources: The State Response - Gail L. Sunderman, Gary Orfield
9. Low-Performing Schools Programs and State Capacity Requirements: Meeting the NCLB Educational Goals - Heinrich Mintrop
Part IV. NCLB: Impact on School Reform and Effects on Minority Students and Schools
10. No Child Left Behind and High School Reform - Linda Darling-Hammond
11. No Child Left Behind and Continuous School Improvement - Willis D. Hawley
12. No Child Left Behind and Reforming the Nation’s Lowest-Performing High Schools: Help, Hindrance, or Unrealized Potential? - Robert Balfanz, Nettie Legters
13. Reforming High Schools to Reduce Dropout Rates - Russell W. Rumberger
Conclusion - Gail L. Sunderman
Index

Editorial Reviews

An important contribution to the field.

Nora Friedman

This text offers valuable information for understanding the intent of NCLB, the positive effects of the legislation, the shortcomings of NCLB as currently authorized, and specific recommendations for improvements.

Dolores Gribouski

"Useful, timely, and enlightening. A good compilation of well-researched articles that need to be read by the field. "

Bonnie Tryon