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Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child

Name: Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child
Author: John E. Chubb
ISBN: 9780742548879

by John E. Chubb

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Overview

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is bolder than all previous federal education laws, setting ambitious goals for universal student achievement and authorizing stringent remedies for schools not reaching them. The book presents a midterm assessment of NCLB that closely examines its core elements and offers recommendations for practical reforms to save the law and strengthen some of its key principles: high standards, results-based accountability, parental options, and research-based practices.

Synopsis

Within Our Reach presents a mid-term assessment of the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind Act. Seeking to protect this historic legislation from its enemies while fixing its shortcomings, the members of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 Education offer recommendations for changes in NCLB aimed at ensuring that its ambitious goals for America's children and schools can be reached.

About the Author, John E. Chubb

John E. Chubb is distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the chief education officer and one of the founders of Edison Schools, a private manager of public schools, including many charter schools. Edison Schools today operate 130 schools in 19 states, with approximately 70,000 students. Chubb is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the coauthor of A Lesson in School Reform from Great Britain, and the author of Politics, Markets, and America's Schools.