Ummm…I Told You So

July 31, 2007 · Posted in NCLB, Studies 

This post will be short but sweet.

The results of a study published in Educational Researcher show that progress in raising student test scores has slowed (and has even declined in reading) since the enactment of No Child Left Behind in 2002. Prior to 2002, state-led efforts at reform were actually making significant progress in narrowing racial and income-based achievement gaps. The federally-mandated NCLB program has effectively quashed those gains.

An abstract of the study is available here. The full study, authored by Bruce Fuller, UC-Berkeley, is available as a PDF file.

You don’t increase someone’s height through the act of measuring it.

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One Response to “Ummm…I Told You So”

  1. Diane K on August 30th, 2007 11:14 am

    “You don’t increase someone’s height through the act of measuring it.”

    Yes, yes, yes!!! That is a brilliant phrase!

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