Tag: NCLB

This is the first in our series on teacher evaluation policy. Teacher evaluation has been a major feature of education policy reform in the United States during the past ten years. The triumvirate of Race to the Top (2009) funding competition, the No Child Left Behind waivers (2011), and the passage of the Every Student

The field of public administration, much like education, is comprised of varying worldviews, paradigms, and perspectives.  These ideological differences can dramatically influence the structure of public policy and accountability systems.  New Public Management and New Public Service are two important paradigms that have evolved over the last few decades and undergird current policymaking and public

  The No Child Left Behind Act expired in 2007, five years after its enactment, but has remained intact in the absence of a replacement law. The Department of Education has begun granting waivers to most of the 50 states, releasing them from some unattainable annual targets while waiting for Congress to fix the law.