Vol. 4, No. 3
What Mandates?
It’s been said, more than once, that the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that the federal government has failed to fund. Not true, in either respect. The law is neither unfunded nor, with one exception, much of a mandate.
Vol. 4, No. 3
The costs of No Child Left Behind; choosing teachers
Costly estimates
In the article “Exploring the Costs of Accountability” (Feature, Spring 2004), James Peyser...
Vol. 4, No. 3
Equally Mediocre
Final Test: The Battle for Adequacy in America’s Schools by Peter Schrag
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Quality Curricula
Public Education as a Business: Real Costs and Accountability by Myron Lieberman & Charlene K. Haar
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Book Alert
Common Sense School Reform
by Frederick M. Hess (Palgrave Macmillan).
Common sense suggests that educators, like...
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