No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap Sociological Perspectives on Federal Educational Policy

This collection presents the first-ever sociological analysis of the No Child Left Behind Act. More importantly, these leading sociologists consider whether NLCB can or will accomplish its major goal: to eliminate the achievement gap by 2014. Based on theoretical and empirical research, the articles examine the history of federal educational policy and place NCLB in a larger sociological and historical context, and take up a number of policy areas affected by the law, including accountability and assessment, curriculum and instruction, teacher quality, parental involvement, school choice and urban education. The book concludes with a discussion of the important contributions of sociological research and sociological analysis to understanding the limits and possibilities of the law to reduce the achievement gap.Bohrnstedt, George W. is the author of 'No Child Left Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap Sociological Perspectives on Federal Educational Policy', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415955317 and ISBN 0415955319.