NCLB Research Reports

Since the passage of NCLB, various governmental agencies, organizations, and researchers have written reports on the impact and implementation of NCLB. This section provides you with some of the major research reports that go beyond a particular provision of the law, with a broader, more comprehensive perspective. This section provides only a sampling of the reports and research that has been compiled, but is representative of the work that is being done in attempting to determine if NCLB is working, and if not, what the consequences of the law are on public schools, teachers, parents, students and the community. The reports provide best practices, instructional findings, community models, and recommendations for improvement. For reports and resources are more narrowly construed, please look under the "Resources" section of each of the Action Briefs.
 

Phi Delta Kappa International
•	No Child Left Behind: Cost and Benefits
Acorn.org
•	Trends in the Graduation of African Americans from Schools of Education, In Pennsylvania, 2002-2004
Center on Education Policy
•	A Shell Game: Federal Funds to Improve Schools
•	Ensuring Academic Rigor or Inducing Rigor Mortis? Issues to Watch in Reading First
•	From the Capital to the Classroom: Year Two of the No Child Left Behind Act
•	Hope but No Miracle Cures: Michigan's Early Restructuring Lessons
•	Identifying School Districts for Improvement and Corrective Action Under the No Child Left Behind Act
•	Rule Changes Could Help More Schools Meet Test Score Targets for the No Child Left Behind Act
•	States Test Limits of Federal AYP Flexibility
•	Title I Funds: Who's Gaining and Who's Losing: School Year 2005-06 Update
•	Wrestling the Devil in the Detail: An Early Look at Restructuring in California
The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University
•	Inspiring Vision, Disappointing Results: Four Studies on Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act
•	How Negotiated Changes Transform the Law
•	Listening to Teachers: Classroom Realities and No Child Left Behind
•	Teacher Quality: Equalizing Educational Opportunities and Outcomes
•	The Unraveling of No Child Left Behind: How Negotiated Changed Transformed the Law
•	Tracking Achievement Gaps and Assessing the Impact of NCLB on the Gaps
•	Tracking Achievement Gaps and Assessing the Impact of NCLB on the Gaps: An In-Depth Look into Nation and State Reading and Math Outcome Trends
Center for American Progress
•	Education: The State We're In
•	Getting Smarter, Becoming Fairer: A Progressive Education Agenda for a Stronger Nation
Arizona State University
•	Ending the Blame Game on Educational Inequity: A Study of "High Flying" Schools and NCLB
•	High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Problems for the No Child Left Behind Act
Education Sector
•	Education Sector; Hot Air: How States Inflate Their Educational Progress Under NCLB
National Conference of State Legislators
•	National Conference of State Legislatures; Task Force on No Child Left Behind Report
National Indian Education Association
•	National Indian Education Association; Preliminary Report on No Child Left Behind
National Education Association
•	11 Changes That Need To Be Made
National School Boards Association
•	Bill to Improve the No Child Left Behind Act
•	Multiple Assessments
•	The Why Report: NCLB Series
•	The Why Report: NCLB Series. NSBA Recommendation #2
•	Track AYP for Same Subgroup
The Education Trust
•	Primary Progress, Secondary Challenge: A State-by-State Look at Student Achievement Patterns
•	Title I Overview: Explanation of the NCLB Accountability System
Lexington Institute
•	Improving No Child Left Behind: Suggestions for Education's Front Lines
The Aspen Institute
•	Children with Disabilities and LEP Students: Their impact on the AYP determinations of schools
•	Children with Disabilities and LEP Students: Their impact on the AYP determinations of schools
•	Children with Disabilities and LEP Students: Their impact on the AYP determinations of schools
•	Children with Disabilities and LEP Students: Their impact on the AYP determinations of schools
•	Improving Achievement for All Students: Is NCLB Accountability Producing Results?
•	Quality Teachers Equal Quality Schools
•	Successful Interventions: Helping Schools Achieve Academic Success--Commission on No Child Left Behind
•	Testing: Making It Work for Children and Schools
•	Testing: Making it Work for Children and Schools: A Hearing at Saint Joseph College
American Institute for Research
•	Meeting NCLB Goals for Highly Qualified Teachers: Estimates by State from Survey Data
US Government Accountability Office
•	Additional Assistance and Research on Effective Strategies Would Help Small Rural Districts
•	No Child Left Behind Act: Education Could Do More to Help States Better Define Graduation Rates and Improve Knowledge about Intervention Strategies
Education Commission of the States
•	ECS Report to the Nation: State Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, Respecting Diversity Among the States
Education Next
•	Keeping an Eye on State Standards
American Association of School Administrators
•	Collection of State Statements and Reports
Northwest Evaluation Association
•	The Impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on Student Achievement and Growth: 2005 Edition
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
•	Charter School Funding: Inequity's Next Frontier
•	Grading the System: The guide to state standards, tests, and accountability policies.
•	Less Than Proficient: A Review of the Draft Science Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress
The National Council of La Raza
•	National Council of La Raza; Improving Assessment and Accountability for English Language
Learning Disabilities Association of America National Center for Learning Disabilities
•	Council for Exceptional Children, International Dyslexia Association
National Down Syndrome Society
•	National Down Syndrome Society