The NCLB era's focus on targets and sanctions without educator capacity-building or component alignment was a key barrier to implementing new standards¶

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q1 i? During the No Child Left Behind era, a focus on targets and sanctions without attention to educator capacity-building or alignment among reform components was a key barrier to implementing the new standards. → Kirst 2024

Evidence¶

Kirst 2024¶

Kirst, M. W. (2024). Standards-based education reforms: Looking back to look forward. Learning Policy Institute. https://doi.org/10.54300/647.623

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The author's retrospective assessment, stated in the Executive Summary of this policy report, drawing on his career observing the NCLB era. It identifies the accountability-without-capacity imbalance as the barrier, with no effect size reported.

"A key barrier to the implementation of the new standards during the No Child Left Behind era was a focus on targets and sanctions without attention to educator capacity-building or alignment among all the necessary components of reform."

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