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Since the late 1960s, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)â€"the nation's report cardâ€"has been the only continuing measure of student achievement in key subject areas. Increasingly, educators and policymakers have expected NAEP to serve as a lever for education reform and many other purposes beyond its original role. Grading the Nation's Report Card examines ways NAEP can be strengthened to provide more informative portrayals of student achievement and the school and system factors that influence it. The committee offers specific recommendations and strategies for improving NAEP's effectiveness and utility, including: Linking achievement data to other education indi...
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Now more than ever, policymakers face a number of difficult and technical questions in the design and implementation of new accountability approaches. This book gathers the emerging knowledge and lessons learned offered by leading scholars in the field.
424 pages including index, history of the county and the towns in it, businesses, churches, families and organizations, lots of b/w illustrations
Within Our Reach presents a mid-term assessment of the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind Act. Seeking to protect this historic legislation from its enemies while fixing its shortcomings, the members of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education offer recommendations for changes in NCLB aimed at ensuring that its ambitious goals for America's children and schools can be reached.