The Educator Roundtable: AERA comes out against NCLB

FINALLY...but still trumpeting NAEP like it is worth something...

philipkovacs :: AERA comes out against NCLB

New Research on Achievement Test Scores Slow Under No Child Left Behind Reforms, Gauged by States and the Federal Assessment WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2007 – As Congress reviews federal efforts to boost student performance, new research published in Educational Researcher (ER) reports that progress in raising test scores was stronger before No Child Left Behind was approved in 2002, compared with the four years following enactment of the law. The article “Gauging Growth: How to Judge No Child Left Behind?” is authored by Bruce Fuller, Joseph Wright, Kathryn Gesicki, and Erin Kang, and is one of four featured works published in the current issue of ER—a peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the American Educational Research Association.