Pain and Gain: Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States, 2004-2006 - Softcover

Stecher, Brian M.

9780833046109: Pain and Gain: Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States, 2004-2006

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833046101 ISBN 13: 9780833046109

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2008

The Implementing StandardsBased Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standardsbased accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This monograph presents information regarding the implementation of NCLB in California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania from 2003-2004 through 2005-2006, including the final results of the ISBA project.

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Presents information regarding the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act in California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania from 2003-2004 through 2005-2006, including the final results of the Implementing Standards-Based Accountability project.

About the Author:

Dr. Brian Stecher (Ph.D., Education, University of California, Los Angeles) is a senior social scientist in the Education program at RAND. Dr. Stecher's research emphasis is applied educational measurement, including the implementation, quality, and impact of state assessment and accountability systems; the cost, quality, and feasibility of performance-based assessments, and the development and validation of licensing and certification examinations. Dr. Stecher currently directs a multi-state, NSF-funded study of the accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind act, and he recently completed a four-year evaluation of the California Class Size Reduction initiative. Dr. Stecher is a member of the Technical Design Group, advising the California Department of Education on the development of that state's accountability system. Dr. Stecher has published widely in professional journals, and he is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Educational Assessment Journal.

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