[Lmresearch] New Harvard study finds NCLB hasn't significantly impacted national achievement scores or narrowed the racial gaps

[Russell W. Rumberger]

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           Tracking Achievement Gaps and Assessing the Impact of NCLB on the Gaps: An In-depth Look into National and State Reading and Math Outcome

            By Jaekyung Lee

            This study, published by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, offers systematic trend analyses of NAEP national and state-level public school fourth and eighth graders' reading and math achievement results during pre-NCLB (1990-2001) and post-NCLB (2002-2005) periods. It compares post-NCLB trends in reading and math achievement with pre-NCLB trends among different racial and socioeconomic groups of fourth and eighth graders from across the nation and states. National and state progress toward closing racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps are evaluated not only in terms of their success in reducing the test score gaps but also in terms of reducing each subgroup's chance of failing to meet desired performance standards. Further, it provides new evidence on the impact of state account ability policy on the achievement gap trends and the discrepancies between NAEP and state assessment results.

            Among the findings:

              a.. NCLB did not have a significant impact on improving reading and math achievement across the nation and states.
              b.. NCLB has not helped the nation and states significantly narrow the achievement gap.
              c.. NCLB's attempt to scale up the alleged success of states that adopted test-driven accountability policy prior to NCLB, so-called first generation accountability states (e.g., Florida, North Carolina, Texas) did not work.
              d.. NCLB's reliance on state assessment as the basis of school accountability is misleading since state-administered tests tend to significantly inflate proficiency levels and proficiency gains as well as deflate racial and social achievement gaps in the states.
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