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Direct linkWright, Wayne E. – Educational Leadership, 2006
NCLB is leaving English language learners behind because it defies logic and common sense, is internally self-contradictory, and sets AYP expectations that the subgroup cannot possibly attain. Although the U.S. Department of Education allows states to use a variety of strategies to avoid having a Limited English Proficiency (LEP) subgroup, few…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Improvement, High Stakes Tests, English (Second Language)
Herrera, Socorro G.; Murry, Kevin G. – Journal of Latinos & Education, 2006
Recent reform initiatives, especially the No Child Left Behind Act, tend to rely on a variety of highly debatable assumptions that fail to reflect the diversity of today's classrooms and also place pressure on educators in a manner we characterize as accountability by assumption. Such reform initiatives have become so political, complex, and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Accountability, English (Second Language), Controversial Issues (Course Content)
Herrera, Socorro G.; Murry, Kevin G. – Journal of Latinos & Education, 2006
Recent reform initiatives, especially the No Child Left Behind Act, tend to rely on a variety of highly debatable assumptions that fail to reflect the diversity of today's classrooms and also place pressure on educators in a manner we characterize as accountability by assumption. Such reform initiatives have become so political, complex, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy, Accountability
