Title I Accountability and School Improvement From 2001 to 2004

摘要

Accountability stands at the center of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The logic of NCLB is straightforward: improving the nation's schools for all children requires the establishment of clear and high standards, the identification of schools in which students are not meeting those standards, options for parents of students in schools identified for improvement, support for struggling schools, and--for those schools that continue to perform poorly--increasingly rigorous interventions. This report presents the key findings over the three years of the study. Findings from 2002-03, the first full year of NCLB implementation, showed that states and districts were making progress in implementing accountability systems under NCLB but that big gaps remained between their existing systems of accountability and the NCLB vision of coherent systems that support all schools and all students to reach high standards.