No Child Left Behind and the Public Schools.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Best-Laid Plans -- 2. The Problem of Quality -- 3. Making the Grade (or Not): Success and Failure in NCLB's World -- 4. Top-Down and Bottom-Up: NCLB, Charter Schools, and the Public School Principalship -- 5. Rethinking Assessment -- 6. Carrots, Sticks, and Unbroken Windows: Making NCLB Live Up to Its Promises -- Appendix: Supplementary Tables -- Notes -- References -- Index.