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Author Abernathy, Scott Franklin, 1966-

Title No child left behind and the public schools / Scott Franklin Abernathy
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 206 pages) : illustrations
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation
Contents Best-laid plans -- Problem of quality -- Making the grade (or not): Success and failure in NCLB's world -- Top-down and bottom-up: NCLB, charter schools, and the public school principalship -- Rethinking assessment -- Carrots, sticks, and unbroken windows: Making NCLB live up to its promises -- Appendix: Supplementary tables -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary A powerful, detailed, and exceptionally balanced critique of NCLB. It offers some hope for how we might overcome its faults. No legislator or educational expert should be allowed to get away with not reading it, whether to agree or disagree. It's a must learning experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
SUBJECT No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (United States) fast
Subject Educational accountability -- United States
Education -- Standards -- United States.
Public schools -- United States
Federal aid to education -- United States
EDUCATION -- Finance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
Education -- Standards
Educational accountability
Federal aid to education
Public schools
United States
USA -- No child left behind act.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006028158
ISBN 9780472021512
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