The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is the latest in more than two decades of federal efforts to raise educational standards and an even longer stream of initia

Standards-based education (SBE) has been the dominant educational reform movement since the early 1980s, reinforced by federal and state accountability systems.

Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. According to

In this volume prominent scholars, experts in their respective fields and highly skilled in the research they conduct, address educational and reading research

Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy. Every Americ