Table of Contents: Standards-based reform and the poverty gap

Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors:	Gamoran, Adam,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.
Subjects:	Educational accountability > United States. Educational change > United States. Poor > Education > United States. Academic achievement > United States.
Online Access:	http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10224516

Table of Contents:

Introduction : can standards-based reform help reduce the poverty gap in education? / Adam Gamoran
Standards-based educational reform is one important step toward reducing the achievement gap / Barbara R. Foorman, Sharon J. Kalinowski, and Waynel L. Sexton
How did the statewide assessment and accountability policies of the 1990s affect instructional quality in low-income elementary schools? / Meredith Phillips and Jennifer Flashman
Has NCLB improved teacher and teaching quality for disadvantaged students? / Laura M. Desimone, Thomas M. Smith, and David Frisvold
Grade retention in the age of standards-based reform / Robert M. Hauser, Carl B. Frederick, and Megan Andrew
Do high school exit exams influence educational attainment or labor market performance? / Thomas S. Dee and Brian A. Jacob
The role of tutoring in standards-based reform / George Farkas and Rachel E. Durham
NCLB school choice and children in poverty / Paul T. Hill
The peculiar politics of No Child Left Behind / Tom Loveless
NCLB lessons learned : implications for reauthorization / Andrew C. Porter.