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U.S. Department of Education
Georgia Department of Education
Center On Education Policy
NCLB Turns 10 - Perspectives
Education Week
Ten years after President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law on Jan. 8, 2002, NCLB is now overdue for reauthorizatio in Congress. (January 2012)
Is Achievement Improving and Gaps Narrowing for Title I Students?
Center on Education Policy
This report compares achievement trends since 2002 (or a more recent year in some states) on state reading and math tests for Title I students and students not participating in Title I. (August 2011)
Recommendations for Improving ESEA/NCLB (Summary and Full)
Forum on Education Accountability
The Forum offers its specific ideas on how to make the legislation better. Relating story. (June 2011)
No Child Left Behind fix lagging in Congress
Associated Press
The long-awaited overhaul of the 9-year-old No Child Left Behind law has begun in the House with the first in a series of targeted bills, but a bipartisan, comprehensive reform of the nation's most important education law still appears far from the finish line. (May 2011)
Statement on Reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Authorization Act (ESEA) - Guidelines for Strengthening the Law
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The U.S. Chamber believes that dramatically improving the performance of the K–12 education system in the nation is essential to providing a strong foundation for both U.S. competitiveness and for individuals to succeed. To achieve this goal, we must continue the unprecedented national dialogue about education reform. (May 2011)
Elementary and Secondary Education Act Briefing Book
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
This is a blueprint for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The report says states should be required to develop standards at least as rigorous as the common core standards to secure Title 1 dollars. Relating article. (April 2011)
Update with 2009-10 Data and Five-Year Trends: How Many Schools Have Not Made Adequate Yearly Progress?
Center on Education Policy
This report updates previous CEP research to include data from the 2009-10 school year on the number of public schools not making adequate yearly progress (AYP) under the No Child Left Behind Act. Relating article. (April 2011)
A Blueprint for Reform - Proposed Revisions to the ESEA
National Education Policy Center
This report looks at the research base of the Obama administration's Blueprint for Reform, the proposed revisions to the ESEA. Scholars were asked to examine the Blueprint's six research summaries. (October 2010)
A Blueprint for Reform - The Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
U.S. Department of Education
"This blueprint builds on the significant reforms already made in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 around four areas. (April 2010)
Improving Low-Performing Schools: Lessons from Five Years of Studying School Restructuring under No Child Left Behind
Center on Education Policy
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
School
National Center for Educational Statistics
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
Center on Education Policy
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?
Center on Education Policy
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
New York Times Story with link to NAEP 2008 Long-Term Trend Report
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
UCLA - The Civil Rights Project
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 Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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
U.S. News and World Report
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
U.S. Department of Education
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
U.S. Department of Education
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
Help Wanted: State Capacity for School Improvement
State Systems of Support Under NCLB
American Institutes for Research (AIR)
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?
Time Magazine
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
Center on Education Policy
(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
Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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
Center on Education Policy
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
U.S. Government Accountability Office
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
Center on Education Policy
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
EducationSector
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)