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RheeFirst! » Shock Treatment: Scores jumped, then stalled, after NCLB


Shock Treatment: Scores jumped, then stalled, after NCLB

As corporate reformers like Michelle Rhee continue to push for wrongly-headed “accountability,” research debunks them.
Written by Sean Cavanagh for EdWeek. Read the entire article here.
After the initial shock of the law’s “accountability” mechanisms wore off, there was a leveling-off of student gains—which suggests that bold new education policies are needed to unleash a fresh wave of academic progress, author Mark Schneider contends.
The paper, published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, speaks to some of the big questions swirling around