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No child left behind and the illusion of reform : critical essays by educators

Title
No child left behind and the illusion of reform : critical essays by educators / edited by Thomas S. Poetter, Joseph C. Wegwert, Catherine Haerr.
Publication
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Poetter, Thomas S. (Thomas Stewart), 1962-
  • Wegwert, Joseph C.
  • Haerr, Catherine.
Description
x, 132 pages; 24 cm
Summary
No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform highlights the scholarship of eight doctoral students in curriculum and their professor, who took on the legal, political, philosophical, social, cultural, economic, and curricular assumptions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This book, the manifestation of their work, is a critical examination of the impact of the NCLB on the lives of children, families, and teachers; and the elusive, but powerful, dynamic found between the rhetorical machinations of the law and the ideological touchstones that dominate the American political terrain. This book openly challenges the law with arguments founded on solid research, scholarship, and data. No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform argues that this law is not only a bad idea for children, but also for teachers, parents, schools, and communities because it undermines good teaching through an over-emphasis on testing and measurement. NCLB also pits schools against each other in a competition for limited resources. The book argues that the law sets impossible goals, which further and unnecessarily defeat and deflate the institution of public education. ... Publisher description.
Subject
  • United States
  • No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (United States)
  • Educational accountability > United States
  • Educational change > United States
  • Education > United States > Evaluation
  • Education > Evaluation
  • Educational accountability
  • Educational change
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • United States
  • USA > No child left behind act
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The impact of NCLB on curriculum, teaching, and assessment / Thomas S. Poetter -- Sister Stella's story / Jennifer L. Bird -- No Cartesian left behind / Robert Karaba -- No Child Left Behind: the scenes behind the act / Shewanee Howard -- NCLB: nexus of citizens learning the business, neoliberalism, and the No Child Left Behind Act / Kathryn LaFever -- No Child Left Behind Educational Act: implications for the education of refugee children / Oliver Kenyi A. Mogga -- The first day of school / Catherine Haerr -- The No Child Left Behind Act and containment of social change / Guy L. Parmigian -- NCLB and the domestication of citizenship / Joe Wegwert.
ISBN
  • 0761834303
  • 9780761834304
  • 0761834311
  • 9780761834311
LCCN
  • 2006921600
  • 9780761834304 (clothbound)
  • 9780761834311 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • ocm83607490
  • 83607490
  • SCSB-8905796
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library