Download or read book Graduation Rates Under No Child Left Behind written by Lisa Leardi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal role in educational policy has increased and endured. The definitive shift from the government's decentralized role in education to today's ringleader, dictating policy and practice, is a massive change that has taken place in less than a generation's time. To examine educational reform and its current state, one must have a historical understanding and an understanding of policy analysis at the grand level. Large-scale assessments are the keystone of accountability under NCLB, and are a required piece when defining AYP. In contrast, very little attention has been given to NCLB's requirements of high school graduation. The U.S. spends considerably more funds collecting and confirming test data than is used to precisely assess whether students graduate. Researchers claim that commonly cited statistics on high school graduation are completely inaccurate and there has been minimal research conducted on the procedures, consistency and benchmarking of school enrollment and graduation data. In the interest of accountability and accuracy, the understanding and reporting of graduation rates are of particular importance due to changing demographics, federal mandates, preparing students for college and careers and increased political and social pressure to decrease the number of dropouts. Up until NCLB, there was little or no federal overseeing of graduation rate reports for accuracy. NCLB is responsible for the Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR), which is the current metric used for collecting and calculating graduation rates. The ACGR was implemented during the 2011--2012 and has provided three years of national and state graduation data. Studying the graduation rate requires a thorough understanding of a range of data sources, federal and state policies and current practice.

Download or read book High School Dropout Graduation and Completion Rates written by National Academy of Education and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-04-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High school graduation and dropout rates have long been used as indicators of educational system productivity and effectiveness and of social and economic well being. While determining these rates may seem like a straightforward task, their calculation is in fact quite complicated. How does one count a student who leaves a regular high school but later completes a GED? How does one count a student who spends most of his/her high school years at one school and then transfers to another? If the student graduates, which school should receive credit? If the student drops out, which school should take responsibility? High School Dropout, Graduation, and Completion Rates addresses these issues and to examine (1) the strengths, limitations, accuracy, and utility of the available dropout and completion measures; (2) the state of the art with respect to longitudinal data systems; and (3) ways that dropout and completion rates can be used to improve policy and practice.

Download or read book Many Children Left Behind written by Deborah Meier and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country. But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: * How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.

Download or read book No Child Left Behind Act Education could do more to help states better define graduation rates and improve knowledge about intervention strategies report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Child Left Behind Act written by US Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About a third of students entering high school do not graduate and face limited job prospects. The No Child Left Behind Act requires states to use graduation rates to measure how well students are educated. To assess the accuracy of states' rates and to review programs that may increase rates, GAO was asked to examine (1) the graduation rate definitions states use and how the Department of Education (Education) helped states meet legal requirements, (2) the factors that affect the accuracy of states' rates and Education's role in ensuring accurate data, and (3) interventions with the potential to increase graduation rates and how Education enhanced and disseminated knowledge of intervention research. As of July 2005, 12 states used a graduation rate definition--referred to as the cohort definition--that tracks students from when they enter high school to when they leave, and by school year 2007-08 a majority plan to use this definition. Thirty-two states used a definition based primarily on the number of dropouts over a 4-year period and graduates. The remaining states used other definitions. GAO recommends Education provide information to all states on ways to account for different types of students in graduation rate calculations, assess the reliability of state data used to calculate interim rates, and establish a timetable to implement the recommendation in GAO's 2002 report to evaluate research and also to disseminate such research. Education agreed with GAO's recommendations on accounting for different types of students and the need for research.

Download or read book The Great Graduation Rate Debate written by Christine O. Wolfe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this paper is to promote clearer understanding of the graduation-rate debate by distilling the policy developments and controversy surrounding the measurement of these rates over the last decade. The paper concludes with a discussion of the move toward a federally mandated common metric for graduation rates. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 required states to include such rates as a factor when making "Adequate Yearly Progress" (AYP) determinations for high schools. Yet it allowed great discretion in how graduation rates were measured and how much progress states had to make over time. This in turn led to growing interest in a common graduation-rate measure for all states, a goal that was embraced by the governors several years ago and then codified into federal regulations in 2008. In some respects, this means that the original "graduation-rate debate" has been settled, in terms of measures and metrics for state, district, and school graduation rates. But there's a new debate on the horizon--whether and how to use those rates as a part of school accountability systems. Is it possible to do so without creating a new set of unintended consequences? What does it mean to be a "high school graduate" anyway? This paper answers these questions. Appended are: (1) Additional Graduation-Rate Data; and (2) Glossary. (Contains 5 figures, 6 tables, and 56 endnotes.) [This report was a joint venture between the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its sister organization the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.].

Download or read book No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap written by Alan R. Sadovnik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental collection presents the first-ever sociological analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act and its effects on children, teachers, parents, and schools. More importantly, these leading sociologists consider whether NLCB can or will accomplish its major goal: to eliminate the achievement gap by 2014. Based on theoretical and empirical research, the essays examine the history of federal educational policy and place NCLB in a larger sociological and historical context. Taking up a number of policy areas affected by the law—including accountability and assessment, curriculum and instruction, teacher quality, parental involvement, school choice and urban education—this book examines the effects of NCLB on different groups of students and schools and the ways in which school organization and structure affect achievement. No Child Left Behind concludes with a discussion of the important contributions of sociological research and sociological analysis integral to understanding the limits and possibilities of the law to reduce the achievement gap.

Download or read book The Real Truth about Low Graduation Rates written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Effects of the Four Pillars on Statewide High School Graduation Rates written by Harry M. Daniel and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated the relationship of statewide high school graduation rates of student ethnic groups from 2002 to 2006 to the four policy pillars of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001: Accountability for Results; Expanded Flexibility and Local Control; Expanded Options for Parents, Strengthening Teacher Quality. The quantitative, non-experimental, multivariate, correlational design addressed four research questions and six hypotheses. The research population was composed of high school students in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The predictor variables were the four policy pillars themselves. Data were collected through archival reports from the Education Commission of the States (ECS) and State Accountability Report Workbooks provided by state departments of education to create an index of implementation to determine the extent to which the four policy pillars were implemented. The criterion variable was high school graduation rate split across student ethnic groups. Graduation rates of subgroup student populations were collected from the Average Freshman Graduation Rates archives for the ninth grade cohort entering in 2001 and exiting in 2006. Data were analyzed both by a one-factor correlational analysis of covariance with one covariate to determine the impact of each NCLB policy pillar, and by a four-factor analysis of covariance with one covariate to determine the impact of all NCLB policy pillars together. The study found that no significant relationships existed between any of the four NCLB policy pillars, singularly or between all four of the policy pillars together, and statewide high school graduation rates among any student racial or ethnic subgroups for the academic years covered in the study. Reasons for the lack of significant relationships are a source for further study. It is recommended that such studies examine the effect of policy implementation that currently allows: (a) each state to set its own test and measurement standards or its own criteria for teacher certification; (b) parents to keep their children in failing schools even if those children are also failing; and (c) each state to underfund mandates.

Download or read book Gao 05 879 No Child Left Behind Act written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO-05-879 No Child Left Behind Act: Education Could Do More to Help States Better Define Graduation Rates and Improve Knowledge about Intervention Strategies

Download or read book Silent No More written by ReLeah Cossett Lent and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, classroom teachers recount their personal experiences of speaking out against educational policies that they believe are harmful to students. For example, an adult educator describes the circumstances surrounding his discovery that 522 students in Birmingham, Alabama were involuntarily withdrawn from school as part of an effort to raise district test scores. The volume does not contain an index.

Download or read book Graduation Matters written by Daria Hall and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of accountability for high school graduation rates under the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) reveals two major problems: (1) State goals for raising graduation rates are far too low to spur needed improvement and (2) Gaps between student groups are allowed to persist by an accountability system that looks only at average graduation rates. The high school diploma is the bare minimum credential necessary to have a fighting chance at successful participation in the workforce or civil society. Yet, writes Hall, current high school accountability policies represent a stunning indifference to whether young people actually earn this critical credential. To spur improvement, accurate data is required. But also needed are ambitious graduation-rate goals for all groups of students, measuring tools to confirm that schools are meeting these goals, and strategic support for struggling students and schools. (Contains 18 endnotes and 6 tables.).

Download or read book Graduation Rates written by Christopher B. Swanson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversies over graduation rates and No Child Left Behind have raged in research, media and political circles for almost a year. All too often, though, when complex issues of social and economic importance collide with policy and politics, heat is generated but little light. As a result, it may be difficult for local educators to parse the rhetoric from the reality and to figure out what this all means for their schools and students. This article attempts to provide some practical insight into NCLB and its implications for graduation rates and to highlight some issues of particular relevance to school administrators. It is hoped that this piece will also point to areas where local school leaders may take increasing ownership of the search to find solutions for the high school completion crisis. (Contains 1 figure.) [This document was produced by The Urban Institute's Education Policy Center (EPC). It was also published in "Principal Leadership" Volume 5, Number 4, p22-27, December 2004 (see EJ766879).].

Download or read book NCLB Waivers and Accountability written by Kathryn Young and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to state education accountability systems, times are changing fast. This is clearer than ever with the advent of not only waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) but also the multitude of state accountability index systems and "A through F" school-grading systems rolling out across the country. The multiple measures of college and career readiness included in the new systems offer potential benefits over the use of state test scores and graduation rates alone. For example, states can now create a more nuanced and comprehensive view of college and career readiness that might include end-of-course assessments, success on college-level courses, and graduation rates, as well as growth in student achievement. However, if these new indices are to be accurate and meaningful, states must not water down accountability measures within them, particularly accountability measures for improving graduation rates. This brief provides five questions that can help states and districts ensure strong graduation rate accountability, using data already available in state reporting systems.

Download or read book No Child Left Behind Act written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Neoliberalism and the Global Restructuring of Knowledge and Education written by Steven C. Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the influence of neoliberal ideas and practices on the way knowledge has been conceptualized, produced, and disseminated over the last few decades at different levels of public education and in various national contexts around the world.

Download or read book Helping Students Graduate written by Franklin Schargel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the fifteen strategies identified through research reviewed by The National Dropout Prevention Center and Network at Clemson University. Each chapter in this book was written by a nationally recognized authority in that field. Research has shown that these 15 strategies have been successfully implemented in all school levels from K - 12 in rural, suburban, and urban centers; as stand-alone programs or as part of systemic school improvement plans. Helping Students Graduate: A Strategic Approach to Dropout Prevention also covers No Child Left Behind and its effects on dropout rates; Dealing with Hispanic dropouts; Differences and similarities between rural and urban dropouts. These fifteen strategies have been adopted by the U.S. Department of Education. They are applicable to all students, including students with disabilities.