TQ Resources

No Child Left Behind

Beyond NCLB: Fulfillilng the Promise to Our Nation's Children (A report by The Commission on No Child Left Behind, April 2007)

Children Left Behind: A Special Report on Educating America (A collection of articles from the American Prospect)

CTQ's Beginning Summary and Analysis of ESEA (June 2003)

CTQ's Response to the Secretary's Second Annual Report on Teacher Quality (August 2003)

Does Highly Qualified Mean High-Quality? (An article by Scott Emerick, Eric Hirsch, and Barnett Berry in the ASCD Infobrief)

ECS Report to the Nation: State Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (July 2004)

Failing Our Children: How 'No Child Left Behind' Undermines Quality and Equity in Education (A Report from The National Center for Fair and Open Testing)

From the Capital to the Classroom: Year 3 of the No Child Left Behind Act
(A report from the Center on Education Policy)

High Quality Professional Development: Will States Meet the NCLB Mandates? (BestTQ Vol. 3, No. 3, October 2003)

Hire Ed: The Secret to Making Bush's School Reform Law Work? More Bureaucrats (An article from the Washington Monthly that addresses state agencies' lack of capacity to implement NCLB, March 2004)

Landing the "Highly Qualified Teacher:" How Administrators Can Hire--and Keep--the Best (An Article by Robert Rothman in the Harvard Education Letter, January/February 2004)

Let’s Get It Right: Ensuring a “Highly Qualified Teacher” for Each Child (BestTQ Vol. 2, No. 4, September 2002)

Listening to Teachers: Classroom Realities and No Child Left Behind (A report from the Harvard Civil Rights Project, September 2004)

A Marshall Plan for Teaching (An article by Linda Darling-Hammond in Ed Week, Vol. 26, Issue 18, January 2007)

NCLB Policy Briefs (Center on Education Policy)

NCLB Teaching Quality Mandate: Finding and Themes from the Field: Funding the Mandate (BestTQ Vol. 3, No. 6, April 2004)

NCLB Teaching Quality Mandate: Finding and Themes from the Field: Highly Qualified Defined (BestTQ Vol. 3, No. 4, December 2003)

NCLB Teaching Quality Mandate: Finding and Themes from the Field: Implementation and Alignment (BestTQ Vol. 3, No. 7, July 2004)

NCLB Teaching Quality Mandate: Finding and Themes from the Field: Recruitment and Retention (BestTQ Vol. 3, No. 5, March 2004)

No Child Left Behind? Then Leave No Teacher Unqualified (BestTQ Vol. 2, No. 1, Special Edition)

No Child Left Behind: Is the law improving student performance? (The CQ Researcher Vol. 15, No. 20, May 2005)

No Child Left Behind and the "Highly Qualified" Teacher: The Promise and the Possibilities (by Barnett Berry and Linda Darling-Hammond, October 2006)

Projected Costs of Implementing the "No Child Left Behind Act" in Ohio: A Detailed Financial Analysis Prepared for the Ohio Department of Education

• A Review of the Ohio Report (January 2004)

Roundtable Discussions on Improving NCLB's Highly Qualified Teacher Provisions (from the Center on Education Policy, 2006)

Searching the Attic: How States are Responding to the Nation's Goal of Placing a Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom (A Report from the National Council on Teacher Quality)

Seeking Clarity on No Child Left Behind (A Washington Post article by Jay Matthews, February 2004)

Survey Finds Many Educators Experience Little Positive NCLB Impact on Professional Development (An article from the National Staff Development Council, February 2004)

Two Very Different Questions (An April 2004 Edweek article on the "unfunded mandate" of NCLB, requires free registration )

Unfulfilled Promise: Ensuring High Quality Teachers for Our Nation's Students No Child Left Behind: A Status Report from Southeastern Schools No Child Left Behind: A Status Report from Southeastern Schools (August 2004)

• See also the Extensive Findings

US Department of Education Announces New Flexibility Measures for "Highly Qualified" Teacher Definition (March 2004)

• Press Release
• Fact Sheet
• Federal Rules Are Relaxed (An Edweek article)
• Analysis of New Flexibility Measures from the Rural School and Community Trust

What Accomplished Teachers Have to Say about NCLB (Conversations Highlights from the Teacher Leaders Network)

What the Public Really Wants on Education (A report from the Center for American Progress, Sept. 2006)