Download or read book The North Carolina ABC s Accountability Plan written by John D. Swajkoski and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Creation and Evolution of North Carolina s ABCs Accountability Program and the Impact of No Child Left Behind written by Louis Michael Fabrizio and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: NCLB, USED, negotiated rulemaking, policy making and implementation, education accountability.
Download or read book The Creation and Evolution of North Carolina s ABCs Accountability Program and the Impact of No Child Left Behind A Case Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study is to investigate in depth, through a case study design, the creation and evolution of North Carolina's ABCs Accountability Program and how it has been impacted by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. There were four research questions: (1) What political and educational factors influenced the creation of the ABCs Accountability Program? (2) How has the ABCs Accountability Program changed over time? (3) What impact has NCLB had on the ABCs? and (4) How have the interrelationships of federal, state and local policymakers in education changed from the inception of the ABCs Program? Interviews (not anonymous) were conducted by an 'insider' with numerous legislative and educational leaders ('policy elites') of the state of North Carolina including, among others: James B. Hunt, Jr., former Governor; Senator Leslie Winner and Representative Jean Preston, former co-chairs of the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee; Dr. Beverly Perdue, current Lieutenant Governor and former state senator; Congressman Bob Etheridge, former State Superintendent of Public Instruction; Mr. Phillip Kirk, former chair of the State Board of Education (SBE); Mr. Howard Lee, Chairman of the SBE; Dr. Jane Norwood, current member of the SBE; Ms. Jane Worsham, Executive Director of the SBE staff; Dr. Weaver Rogers, former Executive Director of the SBE staff; Mr. John Wilson, former president of the North Carolina Association of Educators, Dr. James Causby, president of the North Carolina Association of School Administrators; and several high-ranking administrators of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction including Dr. Richard Thompson, former Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Dr. Henry Johnson, former Associate State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Interview transcripts were analyzed for common themes and the findings of the study include descriptions of several aspects of the accountability program. These include: t.
Download or read book Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education written by Susan Fuhrman and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2004-01-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Leadership written by Autumn Tooms Cyprès and published by IAP. This book was released on 2016 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A volume in Leaders, Schools, and Change The purpose of this book is to examine the tensions, gaps, and intersections between the practices of leadership in educational systems, school leadership preparation programs, and the often different worlds of academia and k12 schools. Voices from both academia and k12 schools are used to illustrate the tensions that cluster around capacity, politics, and the everyday practice of inspiring, engaging, and preparing school leaders.
Download or read book The New ABC s of Public Education written by North Carolina. State Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unintended Consequences of High Stakes Testing written by Gail M. Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To better understand how high-stakes accountability has influenced teaching and learning, this book takes an in-depth look at the myriad consequences that high-stakes tests hold for students, teachers, administrators, and the public. By focusing on these tests and spending large amounts of time on test preparation and driving teachers to teach low-level, rote memorization, schools are essentially wiping out non-tested subjects such as science, social studies, physical education, and the arts. Although testing is promoted as a strategy for improving education for all, research shows that testing has differential effects on students with special needs, minority students, students living in poverty, and those for whom English is a second language. The Unintended Consequences of High Stakes Testing unpacks the assumptions and philosophical foundations on which testing policies are based. The authors' arguments are grounded in extensive interviews and research. Through an examination of research, these authors show that high-stakes testing promotes students' dependence on extrinsic motivation at the cost of intrinsic motivation and the associated love of learning—which has tangible impacts on their education and lives. Features: -Examines how high stakes testing from the perspectives of teachers, students, and adminstrators. -Considers how testing impacts the curriculum including tested subjects such as reading, writing, and mathematics as well as non-tested subjects such as science, social studies, physical education, and the arts. -Documents how teachers and administrators engage in test preparation and discusses ethical and unethical test preparation practices. -Reviews the evolution of testing through history and how it mpacts the curriculum. -Examines the differential effects of testing on students with special needs, minority students, students living in poverty, and those for whom English is a second language.
Download or read book ERS Spectrum written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 North Carolina Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collateral Damage written by Sharon L. Nichols and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell’s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted—and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this “corruption,” showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments.
Download or read book The Design and Evaluation of Educational Assessment and Accountability Systems written by Robert L. Linn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizing Schools written by William Bailey and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information to help administrators organize school structure, advance effective techniques, increase worker satisfaction, and promote productivity.
Download or read book From the Courtroom to the Classroom written by Claire E. Smrekar and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Courtroom to the Classroom examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a “general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support busing to achieve racial integration.” The book fills a growing need for a full-scale assessment of this recent history and its effect on schools, children, and communities.
Download or read book Black Hands in the Biscuits Not in the Classrooms written by Sherick A. Hughes and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Nigger, Nigger, Black as Tar, Won't Go to Heaven in a Motor Car" to "They're Not Ready Yet," this book breathes life into an often-abandoned, rural Black family story. This book illuminates a struggle and hope for education in Southern desegregated
Download or read book Assessing Learning Achievement written by D. Bhaskara Rao and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Countries Measure Student Achievement, How Measurement Can Improve Teaching and Learning, Recent Research on the Quality of Education, Broad Findings of Recent Research, Factors that Contribute to Achievement, How Countries Use Assessment to Improve Student Learning, Issues of Measurement.
Download or read book The A B C of Foster family Care for Children written by Mrs. Blanche Shinn Jobes Paget and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
