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Download full textBickel, Robert; Cadle, Connie – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, 2004
Standardized achievement tests as measures of school performance are an inescapable fact of life in U.S. public education. Critics of such tests hold that U.S. education policy has made achievement test scores more important than achievement itself. "No Child Left Behind," the centerpiece of the Bush Administration's domestic agenda, places a…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Economically Disadvantaged, Courseware, Achievement Gains
