03099nam a22004094a 4500 ebr10224516 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070820s2007 dcua sb 001 0 eng 2007033616 9780815730323 (cloth : alk. paper) 0815730322 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780815730330 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0815730330 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)290569581 n-us--- LB2806.22 .S736 2007eb 379.1/580973 22 Standards-based reform and the poverty gap [electronic resource] : lessons for No Child Left Behind / Adam Gamoran, editor. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007. viii, 340 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : can standards-based reform help reduce the poverty gap in education? / Adam Gamoran -- Standards-based educational reform is one important step toward reducing the achievement gap / Barbara R. Foorman, Sharon J. Kalinowski, and Waynel L. Sexton -- How did the statewide assessment and accountability policies of the 1990s affect instructional quality in low-income elementary schools? / Meredith Phillips and Jennifer Flashman -- Has NCLB improved teacher and teaching quality for disadvantaged students? / Laura M. Desimone, Thomas M. Smith, and David Frisvold -- Grade retention in the age of standards-based reform / Robert M. Hauser, Carl B. Frederick, and Megan Andrew -- Do high school exit exams influence educational attainment or labor market performance? / Thomas S. Dee and Brian A. Jacob -- The role of tutoring in standards-based reform / George Farkas and Rachel E. Durham -- NCLB school choice and children in poverty / Paul T. Hill -- The peculiar politics of No Child Left Behind / Tom Loveless -- NCLB lessons learned : implications for reauthorization / Andrew C. Porter. "With latest data and research, scholars study what lessons can be drawn from earlier efforts to help NCLB achieve its goals. Authors show that standards-based reform has had some positive effects and some of the critics' greatest fears have not been realized. Recommendations offered for implementation of impending reauthorized NCLB"--Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Educational accountability United States. Educational change United States. Poor Education United States. Academic achievement United States. Electronic books. local Gamoran, Adam, 1957- ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10224516 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 25487 25487