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No Child Left Behind
Measured Progress: (Summary) This report documents that student achievement in reading and math is rising in the elementary grades in most states, and achievement gaps are narrowing, but in many places, the pace of these gains must accelerate dramatically if all students are to meet state standards by 2014.
Telling the Whole Truth (or Not) About Highly Qualified Teachers: New State Data: This report reveals that while some states made good faith efforts to report honest data, others fell far short.
Telling the Whole Truth (or Not) About High School Graduation: New State Data: This report highlights the need for states to better report their high school graduation data.
No Child Left Behind User Guide: This guide provides user-friendly information on NCLB that parents and communities can understand and use. This guide highlights key aspects of the NCLB law in user-friendly language helping parents and community use NCLB for advocacy
No Child Left Behind Fact Sheets: These quick easy one page fact sheets provide vital information on key provisions of NCLB.
In Need of Improvement: Ten Ways the U.S. Department of Education Has Failed to Live Up to Its Teacher Quality Commitments
9/03/03
What New “AYP” Information Tells Us About Schools, States, and Public Education: This report documents how AYP provides important new information about academic achievement in America’s public schools.
The ABCs of "AYP": Raising Achievement for All Students
Summer 2004
ESEA: Myths versus Realities
Teacher Quality
The Real Value of Teachers: Using New Information about Teacher Effectiveness to Close the Achievement Gap: This report lays out an ambitious policy agenda, premised on an exhaustive review of the existing research on teacher effectiveness—often referred to as “value-added.”
All Talk, No Action: Putting an End to Out-of-Field Teaching
8/21/02
Interpret With Caution: The First State Title II Reports on the Quality of Teacher Preparation
6/10/02
Honor in the Boxcar: Equalizing Teacher Quality
Spring 2000
Not Good Enough: A Content Analysis of Teacher Licensing Examinations
Spring 1999
Good Teaching Matters: How Well-Qualified Teachers Can Close the Gap
Summer 1998
High Performing Schools
New Frontiers for A New Century: A National Overview
Spring 2001
Curriculum and Assessment
Smart Start II: Why Standards Matter
Front End Alignment
Learning in Overdrive: Designing Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment from Standards
Shifting Gears: Standards, Assessments, Curriculum and Instruction
A New Core Curriculum For All: Aiming High For Other People's Children
Winter 2003
Add It Up: Mathematics Education in the U.S. Does Not Compute
Summer 2002
Ticket to Nowhere: The Gap Between Leaving High School and Entering College and High-Performance Jobs
Fall 1999
K- 16 Issues
The Real Value of Teachers: Using New Information About Teacher Effectiveness to Close the Achievement Gap
Spring 2004
Youth at the Crossroads: Facing High School and Beyond
Winter 2001
Real Results, Remaining Challenges: The Story of Texas Education Reform:
Creating an Appetite for Change: Leaders' Perspectives on Promoting K-16 Reform Through Community Collaboration
2000
Education Watch State and National Data, 2004
Education Watch State Summaries
Education Watch Achievement Gap Summary Tables
Achievement in America
African American Achievement in America
Latino Achievement in America (2 pager):
(En Español)
School Funding
The Funding Gap 2004: This updated report documents how most states continue to shortchange poor and minority students by failing to fairly fund the schools they attend.
The Funding Gap Report 2003 (2002): This report documents large funding gaps between high- and low-poverty and minority districts in many states.
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