{"product_id":"9780815770299","title":"No Child Left Behind?: The Politics and Practice of School Accountability","description":"The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in  American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into  place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan  designed to ensure these standards are met. Students at schools that  fail to meet those standards may leave for other schools, and schools  not progressing adequately become subject to reorganization. The  significance of the law lies less with federal dollar contributions than  with the direction it gives to federal, state, and local school  spending. It helps codify the movement toward common standards and  school accountability.\u003cp\u003e    Yet NCLB will not transform American schools overnight. The first  scholarly assessment of the new legislation, \u003ci\u003eNo Child Left Behind?\u003c\/i\u003e  breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability.  Contributors examine the law's origins, the political and social  forces that gave it shape, the potential issues that will surface with  its implementation, and finally, the law's likely consequences for  American education. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Paul E. Peterson is Henry Lee Shattuck professor of government and  director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard  University. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford  University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    Martin R. West is a research fellow at the Program on Education Policy  and Governance at Harvard University.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brookings Institution Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48388119396592,"sku":"9780815770299","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780815770299","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}