Schools Identified as in Need of Improvement Under Title I

Recent Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Schools

Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Scott Naftel, Mark Berends, Jennifer Sloan McCombs

Published Sep 16, 2005

A key assumption underlying the No Child Left Behind Act is that districts have the capacity and the knowledge to help schools improve. The authors use data from a national longitudinal survey of Title I schools to shed light on the validity of this assumption and make recommendations for helping schools identified as in need of improvement.

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  • Year: 2005
  • Pages: 21
  • Document Number: WR-154-EDU

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Kirby, Sheila Nataraj, Scott Naftel, Mark Berends, and Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Schools Identified as in Need of Improvement Under Title I: Recent Evidence from the National Longitudinal Survey of Schools. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2005. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR154.html.
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