Report Card Nation (eBook)

The Inside Story of Education Reform Under George W. Bush

Charles E. Smith (Autor)

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2025 | 1
140 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-962-0 (ISBN)

Infos

In Report Card Nation, Charles E. Smith offers an insider's perspective on a pivotal moment in American education reform. In 2003, under the mandate of President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative, Smith and a team of public servants brought the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)also known as the Nation's Report Cardto the forefront of federal education policy. Once a respected but relatively obscure measure, the NAEP quickly became the primary tool for assessing the successes and failures of public education across the country. Smiths account details the complexities of implementing a national assessment program with far-reaching consequences under intense political scrutiny. As the Nation's Report Card became a centerpiece of federal accountability measures, its impact reverberated throughout the educational landscape. While the reforms led to budgetary windfalls and documented successes in some areas, they also exposed deep divides, particularly in urban school districts where standardized testing policies contributed to school closures and increased private school enrollments. Drawing on his thirty-two years in Tennessee state government and six years as executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board, Smith explores both the promises and the pitfalls of the No Child Left Behind era. He provides readers with an honest, behind-the-scenes account of the shifts in American education policy during this transformative decade, including the groundwork for implementation of Common Core standards. Smith's clear-eyed, well-researched narrative provides an essential look at how national policy shaped local realities, and how one of the most controversial periods in public education still reverberates today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2025
• Zusatzinfo: 12 photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: American education history • American education reform • Charles E. Smith • Charles E. Smith author • Charles E. Smith biography • Common Core Standards • Common Core standards history • education accountability • education accountability measures • Educational Disparities • educational policy implementation • Educational Reform • education budget impact • education budget impacts • education in Tennessee • education policy controversies • education policy history • education policy implementation • education policy insider perspective • education policy narrative • education reform challenges • federal and local education dynamics • Federal education policy • federal mandates in education • George W. Bush Administration • George W. Bush education initiatives • naep • National Assessment Governing Board • National Assessment of Educational Progress • Nation's Report Card • Nation’s Report Card • Ned McWherter administration • No Child Left Behind • private school enrollment • public education assessment • public school performance • public vs. private education • Report Card Nation • School Closures • school closures and testing • Standardized testing • standardized testing debates • standardized testing policy • Tennessee education • Tennessee education history • urban school districts • urban school districts education • U.S. education controversies
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-962-X / 162190962X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-962-0 / 9781621909620