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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
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Connor, Hannah – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2011
The need to improve math education around the country has been well documented, especially in urban school systems like Philadelphia. In Spring 2010, only 56.6% of students in Philadelphia Public schools scored proficient or advanced on the Pennsylvania State Standardized Assessment (PSSA). In Philadelphia Empowerment Schools, the 107 lowest…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Remedial Mathematics, Curriculum Implementation, Empowerment
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Wyss, Vanessa L.; Tai, Robert H.; Sadler, Philip M. – High School Journal, 2007
This paper focuses on the influence of high school science class size on students' achievement in introductory college science courses and on the variation of teacher practice across class size. Surveys collected information about high school science class experiences from 2754 biology, 3521 chemistry, and 1903 physics students across 36 public…
Descriptors: Physics, College Science, Multiple Regression Analysis, Academic Achievement
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Bosworth, Ryan; Caliendo, Frank – Economics of Education Review, 2007
We develop a simple model of teacher behavior that offers a solution to the ''class size puzzle'' and is useful for analyzing the potential effects of the No Child Left Behind Act. When teachers must allocate limited classroom time between multiple instructional methods, rational teachers may respond to reductions in class size by reallocating…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Teacher Behavior, Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement
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Lee, Jaekyung – Peabody Journal of Education, 2006
States' policy approaches to accountability tend to divide between a primary emphasis on input guarantees and a primary emphasis on performance guarantees. In the midst of keen controversies about the impact of high-stakes testing under the No Child Left Behind Act, this article examines separate and joint effects of input-guarantee versus…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Federal Legislation, School Support, Grade 8