Schooling, Statistics, and Poverty: Can We Measure School Improvement? NCLB
- Author(s):
- Raudenbush, Stephen W.
- Publication Year:
- 2004
- Source:
- William H. Angoff Memorial Lecture Series
- Document Type:
- Publication
- Page Count:
- 43
- Subject/Key Words:
- Educational Improvement, Poverty, Lawrence, Ida, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Causal Inference, Messick, Samuel J., New Hampshire, Maine, Parents, Elementary Schools, High Schools, Accountability, Braun, Henry I., Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K), Public Schools, Achievement Gap, Socioeconomic Status (SES), Washington, D.C., Reliability
Abstract
In the ninth annual William H. Angoff Memorial Lecture, Dr. Stephen W. Raudenbush examines two competing approaches to measuring school quality and improvement and discusses their limitations for making high-stakes decisions.