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Koyama, Jill – American Journal of Education, 2013
This article focuses on the response of educational leaders to No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) market-driven and sanctions-laden reforms as part of a political spectacle in which discourses link accountability and educational effectiveness to the advance of capitalism. Drawing on data collected during a multiyear ethnography of NCLB, this article…
Descriptors: Accountability, Ethnography, Politics of Education, Program Implementation
Hambleton, Ronald K.; Slater, Sharon C. – 1996
The extent to which National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Executive Summary reports are intelligible to policy makers and educators was studied, and recommendations were offered for improving NAEP reporting practices. Detailed interviews were conducted with 59 policy makers and educators. In general, these two groups had considerable…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehension, Educational Administration, Educational Policy