"Our children's burden": a history of federal education policies that ask (now require) our public schools to solve societal inequality / Amy Stuart Wells -- The challenge and opportunity of African American educational achievement / Michael T. Nettles, Catherine M. Millett, and Hyeyoung Oh -- Educational policy for linguistically and culturally diverse students: foundation or barrier? / Eugene E. García -- Standards, assessments, and accountability for students with disabilities: an evolving meaning of a "free and appropriate public education" / Margaret J. McLaughlin, Meredith Miceli, and Amanda Hoffman -- "Proficiency for all"--an oxymoron / Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Tamara Wilder -- Improving the accountability provisions of NCLB / Robert L. Linn -- Standards, tests, and NCLB: what might come next / Robert Schwartz -- A federal foray into teacher certification: assessing the "highly qualified teacher" provision of NCLB / Susanna Loeb and Luke Miller -- The problem of capacity in the (re)design of educational accountability systems / Richard F. Elmore -- A vital and viable agenda for reauthorizing NCLB / Michael A. Rebell and Jessica R. Wolff.
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