Archived Publications — 2003

A New Core Curriculum For All: Aiming High For Other People's Children

This report highlights findings from several large-scale economic and education studies. It argues that educators and policymakers working to ensure that all students are prepared for success in work and in college must attend, first and foremost, to ensuring that students take the rigorous courses that research makes clear are necessary for such success.

Publication date: 
December 4 2003

Telling the Whole Truth (or Not) About High School Graduation: New State Data

This report highlights the need for states to better report their high school graduation data. Ultimately, this data should result in greater awareness of how many students, particularly low-income and minority students, make it through high school. A state-by-state analysis of graduation rates in all 50 states demonstrates that while some states seem to have seized this opportunity to provide an honest picture of high school graduation among their young people, many other states were lax in reporting complete and useful data.

Publication date: 
December 1 2003

No Child Left Behind User Guide

This guide provides user-friendly information on NCLB that parents and communities can understand and use. This guide highlights key aspects of the NCLB law in user-friendly language helping parents and community use NCLB for advocacy.

Publication date: 
October 1 2003

No Child Left Behind Fact Sheets

These quick easy one page fact sheets provide vital information on key provisions of NCLB.

Publication date: 
October 1 2003

Implementing Key Teacher Quality Provisions

NCLB requires states to adopt minimum standards for who can be considered a “highly qualified” teacher, measure the extent to which the state provides such teachers to all students, and adopt goals and plans to ensure that all students are taught by qualified teachers. This paper discusses the key teacher quality provisions in NCLB.

Publication date: 
September 1 2003

Questions to Ask About NCLB

Public reporting of school, district, and state data is one of the cornerstones of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This document lists the information the public is entitled to under NCLB.

Publication date: 
September 1 2003

The Funding Gap Report 2003

The study reveals that, in most states, school districts that educate the greatest number of low-income and minority students receive substantially less state and local money per student than districts with the fewest low-income and minority students.

Publication date: 
September 1 2003

In Need of Improvement: Ten Ways the U.S. Department of Education Has Failed to Live Up to Its Teacher Quality Commitments

A brief report criticizing the U.S. Department of Education for failing to make adequate progress implementing the crucial teacher quality provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Publication date: 
August 1 2003

What New “AYP” Information Tells Us About Schools, States, and Public Education

This report documents how AYP provides important new information about academic achievement in America’s public schools. This year’s first-ever application of the AYP formula is providing the foundation for school improvement efforts in all 50 states by uncovering large achievement gaps, identifying schools that have made significant progress, and recognizing schools with high percentages of low-income and minority children meeting state proficiency benchmarks.

Publication date: 
June 1 2003

African American Achievement in America

This brief two-pager documents the current status of African American Achievement in America, High-Performing Schools, and ways communities can help close the achievement gap.

Publication date: 
January 1 2003