Low-Achievement, Testing, and Pushout

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Test, Punish and Pushout: How Zero Tolerance and High-Stakes Testing Funnel Youth into the School to Prison Pipeline (2010) (Document)

“Test, Punish, and Push Out” provides an overview of zero-tolerance school discipline and high-stakes testing, how they relate to each other, how laws and policies such as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) have made school discipline even more punitive, and the risk faced if these devastating policies are not reformed.

Race, Inequality, and Educational Accountability: the Irony of "No Child Left Behind" (2007) (Research Report/Paper)

The No Child Left Behind Act, the major education initiative of the Bush Administration, was intended to raise educational achievement and close the racial/ethnic achievement gap. Its strategies include focusing schools’ attention on raising test scores, mandating better qualified teachers and providing educational choice.

New Jersey's Special Review Assessment: Loophole or Lifeline? (2007) (Document)

Designed, implemented and published by a coalition including the CUNY Graduate Center, the NJ Education Law Center, the Institute on Law and Social Policy at Rutgers University and Project GRAD in Newark, New Jersey, SRA: Lifeline or Loophole?

Students with Low Grades are Dropped from School and Counseled Out (2006) (Document)

“Closing the Aspirations-Attainment Gap: Implications for High School Reform, A Commentary from Chicago,” School of Social Service Administration and The Consortium on Chicago School Research, The University of Chicago (April 2006).

No Evidence that High-Stakes Testing Improves Achievement; Instead it Increases Dropout Rates (2005) (Document)

“High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Problems for the No Child Left Behind Act,” The Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice (2005).

Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth are Being Left Behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis (2004) (Document)

This article asserts that the federally reported dropout statistics provide a false picture of high school graduation rates, and utilizes the Cumulative Promotion Index developed by The Urban Institute to provide more accurate information on graduation rates.

The Perverse Incentives of the No Child Left Behind Act (2003) (Document)

The No Child Left Behind Act, perhaps the most important federal education law in our nation's history, is designed to boost achievement levels of all students and to close the achievement gap among students from different backgrounds.

Trends in High School Dropout and Completion Rates in the United States: 1972–2008 (Document)

This report builds upon a series of National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports on high school dropout, completion, and graduation rates that began in 1988. The report includes discussions of many rates used to study how students complete or fail to complete high school.

High-Stake Testing and Grade Retention Increases Dropout Rates (200) (Document)

"Testing, Testing," The Nation (June 5, 2000).