Myth and Reality of No Child Left Behind

Todd Alan Price, Ph.D., is an assistant professor, Educational Foundations and Inquiry, National-Louis University. He has published several articles on No Child Left Behind, and produced a documentary, No Child Left Behind Report: Public Education in the Crosshairs. Elizabeth A. Peterson, Ed.D, is an associate professor in the Department of Adult Education at National-Louis University. She currently teaches doctoral and masters students of adult education.

• Chapter 1 1. The Book of TestingChapter 2 2. The Chicken Wins: The History of AssessmentChapter 3 3. ETS and the American DreamChapter 4 4. Fuzzy Math: Missing Tests, Missing Students, Missing the MarkChapter 5 5. Drop Out or Pushed Out? Who's Counted Out in High Stakes TestingChapter 6 6. English Language Learners in an Era of NCLBChapter 7 7. Who is Being Left Behind?Chapter 8 8. Public Education and Privatization in the Ownership SocietyChapter 9 9. Hawaii, the Fiftieth State: A Case Study of the Plantation BluesChapter 10 10. The Modification of School Improvement and Staff Development Efforts in Response to the Failure to Make Adequate Yearly ProgressChapter 11 11. Unintended Consequences: The Teacher's StoryChapter 12 12. A Ray of Hope: Service Learning Insures Success for All

This book shows how able and committed teachers who regard their profession as a calling are tragically transformed into technocrats fulfilling federal reform imperatives. This inside picture of the terrible price teachers pay to work in the system imposed by NCLB should be a call to action.