ERIC Number: EJ741068
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Apr
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-127X
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The Teachers' Lounge
Barlow, Dudley
Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v71 n8 p65-70 Apr 2006
For the 2003-04 school year, 73% of Florida schools were identified as in need of improvement under criteria of the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act, President Bush's 2001 renewal of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. One year later, that figure had been cut almost in half, to 37.4%. California reduced its number of school districts identified as in need of improvement by 60.3%: from 378 to 150. Georgia reduced such districts by a stunning 89.6%: from 115 to just 12. These schools and school districts may not have changed their instruction at all from one year to the next. But they did learn how to cut deals with the U. S. Department of Education (ED). This article discusses the stunning study, "The Unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How Negotiated Changes Transform the Law," released by Gail L. Sunderman, Senior Research Associate in K-12 Education for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Here she documents how ED responded to a "crescendo" of objections by the states to NCLB provisions with a bewildering array of negotiated changes made with individual states.
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Equal Education, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, School Districts, Academic Standards, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Public Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: No Child Left Behind Act 2001
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