Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling

by Jal Mehta

Book Overview

Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush agreed on little, but united behind the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Passed in late 2001, it was hailed as a dramatic new departure in school reform. It would make the states set high standards, measure student progress, and hold failing schools accountable. A decade later, NCLB has been repudiated on both sides of the aisle. According to Jal Mehta, we should have seen it coming. Far from new, it was the same approach...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199942064
• ISBN13: 9780199942060
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"