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By Frederick M. Hess
NCLB is the sign family coverage initiative of the Bush management and the main formidable piece of federal schooling laws in at the least thirty-five years. Mandating a checking out regime to strength faculties to repeatedly enhance scholar functionality, it makes use of university selection and extra studying assets as sticks and carrots meant to enhance low-performing faculties and districts. the point of interest is on bettering possible choices to young children in low-performing faculties. right here best specialists review the aptitude and the issues of NCLB in its preliminary phases of implementation. this primary glance presents necessary insights, delivering classes an important to knowing this dramatic switch in American education.
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The other would partner with schools to make the school the site of a Huntington learning center. One player in this category has surprised the competition with the slowness of its entrance into this new marketplace: Edison Schools. Edison is a national school management company, and many large firms expected it to be a big player out of the gates. In the fall of 2003 it was approved only in nine states—about a third the number of its big corporate competitors. Having spent a year on research and development, Edison waited until late spring to market itself as a tutoring provider.
28 R I C H A R D L E E C O LV I N Interdistrict Choice A variety of programs around the country offer students the opportunity to go to school in a district different from the one where they live. Most such programs are voluntary, and many districts choose not to take part. But nine states actually require districts to allow students to enroll in schools outside their boundaries. 53 Analyses in Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have found that white students participate in interdistrict choice programs at a significantly higher rate than do minority students, leading to concerns that such programs are exacerbating racial segregation.
5. Jennifer Dounay, Education Commission of the States, untitled presentation, Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, Los Angeles, California, May 2003. 6. Ibid. 7. Vanessa Smith Morest and Melinda Mechur Karp, “Merging College and High School: The Institutional Realities of Implementing PK-16 Reform” (New York: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University), draft, April 2003. 8. Kimberly Miller, “Scholarship Voucher System Unchecked,” Palm Beach Post, July 13, 2003, and ongoing coverage; Jay P.