The 2001 renewal of the United States' Title I program instituted the Supplemental Educational Services (SES) program, through which students attending schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) for 3 consecutive years are offered tutoring in core subjects. Although some SES evaluations have measured provider effects on student…

An interesting thing happened on the way to implementing the "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act. When federal officials focused on one of the pillars of the legislation--school choice--they found that many of the states were way ahead of them on this issue. Moreover, choice is a near-empty policy in many urban districts where the NCLB is…

In this article, the author describes how the schools are dealing with issues that used to be the responsibility of parents and others in society. In recent years, school boards have taken on some of the services like breakfast and lunch programs, health care, and before-and after-school programs among others. Schools are asked to provide basic…

As federal mandates have increased in recent years, public schools have been hampered by the lack of resources to implement them. The forthcoming reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides an opportunity to move away from the shortcomings of its present version, the No Child Left Behind Act. This article presents…

In September 2002, the children of parents Latasha Gibbs, Carmella Glass, Laverne Jones, Charlene Mingo, Deborah Powell-Jasper, Eunice Staton, and Keikola Valentine were attending New York City public schools that the state education department identified as needing improvement -- in other words, failing -- under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB)…

As the focus on school improvement at a state education agency moves from mostly a compliance approach to playing a greater role in capacity building, the agency's leadership needs to rethink student and learning supports. That is the focus of this report. Given that almost half of the chief state school officers have assumed their position in the…

This manuscript, compiled by the National Center for Homeless Education, is the outcome of the first year of a two-year project designed to explore what works in reading instruction for students who are highly mobile. It summarizes the findings of a review of literature on teaching reading to highly mobile students. The target population included…