 |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 What will happen to NCLB under the Obama administration? Check here for updates on the latest news coverage as well as research and reports. Posting here does not indicate Partnership endorsement. Improving Low-Performing Schools: Lessons from Five Years of Studying School Restructuring under No Child Left Behind This report synthesizes five years of CEP's research on state and local efforts to improve persistently low-performing schools in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act. (December 2009) Students' Use of Tutoring Services, by Adequate Yearly Progress Status of This Statistics in Brief reports on the use of tutoring services among public school students enrolled in grades K-12 in 2007. (November 2009) Mining the Opportunities in Differentiated Accountability: Lessons Learned from the No Child Left Behind Pilots in Four States This report examines how four states—Georgia, Maryland, New York, and Ohio—have taken advantage of the flexibility under the Differentiated Accountability Pilot program to help low-performing schools under the Act. (September 2009) State Test Score Trends Through 2007 - 08, Part 1 - Is the Emphasis on 'Proficiency' Shortchanging Higher - and Lower - Achieving Students? Since the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) took effect in 2002, educators have devoted enormous energy to helping students reach the “proficient” level of performance on state tests. (June 2009) ‘No Child’ Law Is Not Closing a Racial Gap The achievement gap between students has not narrowed in recent years, despite the focus of the NCLB law on improving the scores of blacks and Hispanics, according this test considered to be the nation’s best measure of long-term trends in math and reading proficiency. (April 2009) Why High Stakes Accountability Sounds Good But Doesn't Work - and Why We Keep on Doing It Anyway This report finds that some of the basic assumptions of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) are not working and may well be making things worse. (April 2009) The Accountability Illusion The report "moved" real schools from from state to state to see how many would make AYP under each state's NCLB rules, finding that in some states, nearly all of the elementary schools would make AYP while in others practically none of them would. (February 2009) What Education Secretary Arne Duncan Thinks About No Child Left Behind Education Secretary Arne Duncan has big plans for improving the nation's schools. His first order of business is drumming up support for an unprecedented $140 billion stimulus measurefor education. (February 2009) Final No Child Left Behind Rules Require Uniform Graduation Rates The regulations will require states to adopt the same method of calculating high school graduation rates. Other mandates are provided. (November 2008) 'Reading First' Implementation Final Report The basic principles of 'Reading First' have been widely implemented in participating schools, but those changes have resulted in limited student achievement gains, concludes this new report. (November 2008) Reports on States' Capacity to Help Low-Performing Students Under NCLB Researchers found that states with a greater number of schools needing improvement were most overwhelmed, and most states used outside organizations to help those schools. (September 2008) No Child Left Behind. Doomed to Fail? A former member of the Bush education department takes a critical look at the law she feels has a hidden agenda. (June 2008) Has Student Achievement Increased Since 2002? State Test Score Trends Through 2006-07 (Click on NCLB - left side, click on "Compendium," scroll down to "Achievement and Related Issues," then scroll down to second report.) This describes 50-state findings from the second year of NCLB which began in 2002. (June 2008) High Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB While the poorest-performing students have made academic progress under No Child Left Behind, the brightest students appear to be languishing, according to this report. (June 2008) States Starting Slowly on NCLB Proficiency Goals to Face Crunch States that established modest goals in the early days of NCLB may find they need to make nearly impossible improvements in student performance to reach the law's target of 100% proficiency by 2013-14. (May 2008) Education Actions Could Improve the Targeting of School Improvement Funds to Schools Most in Need of Assisatnce Conflicting requirements under No Child Left Behind are preventing some struggling schools from getting the financial help to boost achievement, according to this report. (February/March 2008) Instructional Time in Elementary Schools: A Closer Look at Changes for Specific Subjects The findings in this analysis offer further evidence that NCLB has led to sizeable shifts in the curriculum. (February 2008) The Evidence Suggests Otherwise. The Pangloss Index: How States Game the No Child Left Behind Act This independent think tank report contends states are gaming the system - manipulating statistics to make their schools appear better than they really are - under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. (November 2007) How Educators in Three States (Georgia) Are Responding to Standards-Based Accountability Under NCLB According to this three-year study, majorities of elementary and middle school science and math teachers in all three states (including Georgia) report in surveys that they are making positive changes in the classroom by focusing on their states' academic standards or searching for better teaching methods. (June 2007) |
| © 2007 Georgia Partnership For Excellence In Education All Rights Reserved. |  |