NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons From the Field

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NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons From the Field

reviewed by Dan Laitsch - 2006

Title: NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons From the Field
Author(s): Gail Sunderman, Jimmy Kim, and Gary Orfield
Publisher: Sage Publishing, Thousand Oaks
ISBN: 1412915554, Pages: 148, Year: 2005
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When President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act (the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act), it was hailed as a unique and bipartisan effort to improve education in the U.S. The bill was passed in the Senate by a vote of 87-10, and in the House by a 381-41 margin, with Democrats in senior leadership positions—Congressman George Miller (D-CA) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)—joining President Bush for the signing ceremony on January 8, 2002. Just three years later, however, the law has created a bipartisan political backlash that has states looking at refusing Federal funding and suing the Federal government, and the U.S Department of Education levying hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in fines for failures to comply with the law. A new book by Gail Sunderman, Jimmy Kim, and Gary Orfield—NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons from the Field—attempts to document the impact of NCLB on educators, evaluate... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 108 Number 1, 2006, p. 103-107
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 12109, Date Accessed: 4/22/2021 10:59:28 AM

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Dan Laitsch Simon Fraser University E-mail Author DAN LAITSCH is an assistant professor with the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and Chair of the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group on Research Use. His recent publications include "Accountability: A view from the states through the lens of No Child Left Behind," forthcoming in Orbit Magazine and "Beyond standards and accountability: A critique of current trends in assessment," in CEPolicy Perspectives. His research interests include the use and misue of research in policymaking, and he is currently embarking on an international study of teacher use of research to improve practice.

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