NCLB Meets School Realities

NCLB Meets School Realities
Author: Gail L. Sunderman
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781412915557

This text details how the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is put into practice.

Hidden Markets

Hidden Markets
Author: Patricia Burch
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009-01-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135915059

Across the U.S., test publishers, software companies, and research firms are swarming to take advantage of the revenues made available by the No Child Left Behind Act. In effect, the education industry has assumed a central place in the day-to-day governance and administration of public schools—a trend that has gone largely unnoticed by policymakers or the press until now. Drawing on analytic tools, Hidden Markets examines specific domains that the education industry has had particular influence on—home schooling, remedial instruction, management consulting, test development, data management, and staff development. Burch's analysis demonstrates that only when we subject the education industry to systematic and in-depth critical analysis can we begin to demand more corporate accountability and organize to halt the slide of education funds into the market.