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
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