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Lustick, David – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2011
Regardless of what one thinks of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the current national education legislation has demonstrated the power and potential of learning standards linked with systems of accountability to influence classroom experiences. Unfortunately, the changes promoted by the legislation have tied the professional hands and suppressed the…
Descriptors: Test Preparation, Curriculum Development, Federal Legislation, Educational Change
Brint, Steven – Academe, 2008
Today, Americans face a challenge to the organization of higher education that, however it is resolved, will transform the enterprise. That challenge goes under the name "learning outcomes," or sometimes "accountability." It is a challenge brought largely by those outside higher education and is based on criticisms of the…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Standardized Tests, Accountability
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2007
The No Child Left Behind Act, the major education initiative of the Bush Administration, was intended to raise educational achievement and close the racial/ethnic achievement gap. Its strategies include focusing schools' attention on raising test scores, mandating better qualified teachers and providing educational choice. Unfortunately, the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning, Race, Special Needs Students
Keller, Bess – Education Week, 2006
The possibility that the No Child Left Behind Act could trump provisions of collective bargaining agreements with teachers has hung in the air as an open question since before the measure became law in 2002. But it should not anymore, says a report released last week asserting that the teachers' contracts have the winning hand. The debate began as…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Collective Bargaining, School Districts, Unions
Starnes, Bobby Ann – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
In this article, the author discusses "Wiki-ality" and "truthiness"--notions that explain a lot about life in the 21st century. Both words were coined by Stephen Colbert, an American comedian and actor. Colbert coined the word "Wiki-ality" based on Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopedia which seems far more…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Public Education, Program Effectiveness, Policy Analysis
McKim, Brent – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
The federal journey into public education has followed a long and winding road. Most educators know that the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is simply the latest version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which dates all the way back to 1965. In the years since its initial passage, the ESEA road has taken a number of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Role of Education, Educational Change
Garan, Elaine M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2005
Writers know how easy it is to be seduced by their own cleverness. Words and ideas have a way of turning heads as they take on lives of their own. However, the time comes when good writers must harden their hearts, sharpen the axe, and murder their darlings. The same must be said of good scientists. Even more so than with writing, ethical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Scientists, Reading Instruction, Reading Research
Schroeder, Ken – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
In this article, the author talks about a provision that President Bush put the near end of his "No Child Left Behind" Act, forcing school districts to share with military recruiters the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all high school juniors and seniors. Here, the author features the National Network Opposing the…
Descriptors: Military Service, Recruitment, High School Students, Confidentiality