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Gara, Taylor V.; Farkas, George; Brouillette, Liane – Arts Education Policy Review, 2022
It has been asserted that the test-based accountability of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) increased instruction in tested subject areas reading and math, leading to reductions in arts education. We tested this using two waves of data, before and after NCLB implementation, in a difference-in-differences design. The analyses indicated that the total…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Accountability, Educational Policy
Yeh, Stuart S. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
As a consequence of the federal "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) law, there is tremendous pressure on school principals, teachers, school superintendents, district staff, state departments of education and governors to maximize the increase in student achievement that is obtained with every dollar of expenditure. Currently, teachers are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Social Influences, Cost Effectiveness
Batt, Ellen G. – Multicultural Education, 2008
Concern for the status of linguistic minority education in Idaho provided motivation to investigate the perceptions of the inservice educators who work most closely with a large proportion of English language learners (ELLs) in the rural state's public schools. This study sought to learn directly from the state's ELL educators what they perceived…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, English Teachers, Bilingual Teachers
Wolman, Paul, Ed. – National Education Association Research Department, 2010
A continuing need for comprehensive and timely information about the public school teachers of the United States led the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division in 1956 to develop the first of a series of surveys and subsequent reports covering various aspects of teachers' professional, family, and civic lives. The NEA has conducted…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Characteristics, Federal Legislation, Public School Teachers