Focus on Adequate Yearly Progress
Winter 2004 Vol. 12 No. 2
The No Child Left Behind law has a number of provisions aimed at insuring equity among students. But evidence is growing that schools with a diversity of students are at a disadvantage under the law.
Education law is tougher on diverse schools
by Paul Socolar
Some critics of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) have argued that large schools and schools with a diverse student population are penalized by the law's provisions. School performance results from 2004 in Philadelphia appear to bear out this charge.
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With AYP, 'No Child Left Behind' takes aim at 'achievement gap'
by Sheila Simmons
The nation's "achievement gap" is narrowing, according to a recent report by the Education Trust, a Washington-based advocacy organization.
In an October news release, the group calls the evidence of a decrease in racial disparities "positive news about the power of the No Child Left Behind Act to get educators focused on closing the achievement gap."
But a number of local and national education experts express doubts that NCLB is having a positive impact on the educational achievement of poor students and students of color.
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Achieving 'proficiency': the devil is in the details of state plans
by Eva Travers
Item: A child is an above average student in math but fails to score "proficient" on the state standardized test. Yet if the same student had taken the state test in a neighboring state, achieving "proficiency" would have been a cakewalk.
Item: In Florida, only 24 percent of schools statewide met the annual targets for school performance that are now required under federal law in every state. Next door, in Alabama, not renowned for high quality public schools, 95 percent of schools met the state's school performance targets.
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Table of Contents
Theme articles
- Education law is tougher on diverse schools by Paul Socolar
- State creates new ways to meet AYP targets by Eva Travers
- 'No Child Left Behind' and AYP in Pennsylvania
- Adequate Yearly Progress: Where charter schools stand
- Adequate Yearly Progress: Where District schools stand
- Making AYP: The game
- Achieving 'proficiency': the devil is in the details of state plans by Eva Travers
- With AYP, 'No Child Left Behind' takes aim at 'achievement gap' by Sheila Simmons
- Parent rights promised by NCLB often not exercised by Keith Weissglass
- No Child Left Behind: local parent resources
- Struggling to make AYP: students' views from two schools by Ron Whitehorne
- Kaplan test prep program up for reconsideration by Sheila Simmons
- Book by Dr. Seuss takes up high-stakes testing by Keith Weissglass
- As pressure grows to raise scores, how do districts spot cheating? by Benjamin Herold
- Sniffing out test irregularities in Chicago by Benjamin Herold
- Questions parents can ask about AYP and school performance by Baruch Kintisch
- Reading a No Child Left Behind 'school report card' by Benjamin Herold and Paul Socolar
- Report cards are sent home to parents and are also available on the School District's website.
Other news & features
- Teacher equity struggle takes new direction by Sheila Simmons
- Key provisions of PFT contract: more site selection, 25 'Incentive Schools'
Cartoon
- Winter 2004-2005 cartoon
In our opinion
- Making AYP: cause to celebrate?
Letters to the editors
- Charter schools welcome challenge
- 'Declaration of Education': all surface, no substance
Eye on special education
- What does 'AYP' mean for students with disabilities? by Len Rieser
Activism around the city
- Antiviolence efforts taken to school, Council
- Enrollment guaranteed to immigrant, foster youth
- Students take part in high-turnout election
News in brief
- District prepares to take "Corrective Action"
- More new buildings on the way, Vallas says
- District website posts detailed school data
Guest opinions
- Some gaps get more attention than others by Stan Karp
School snapshot
- Simon Gratz High School
En español
- 'Que Ningún Niño se Quede Atrás' en Pensilvania
- Derechos prometidos por la NCLB a menudo no se cumplen por Keith Weissglass
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