Achievement Trade-Offs and NCLB

Dale Ballou and Matthew G. Springer

The Achievement Consequences of the No Child Left Behind Act

Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob

Leaving No Child Behind: Two Paths to School Accountability

David Figlio, Cecelia Rouse, Analia Schlosser

Supplemental Education Services Under NCLB: Who Signs Up, and What Do They Gain?

Carolyn Heinrich, Robert Meyer and Gregory Whitten

Which Students are Left Behind? The Racial Impacts of NCLB

John Krieg

Status vs. Growth: Distributional Effects of School Accountability Policies

Helen Ladd and Douglas Lauen

Supplemental Education Services and Student Test Score Gains: Evidence from a Large Urban School District

Matthew Pepper, Matthew Springer, and Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar

The Effects of No Child Left Behind on School Services and Student Outcomes

Randall Reback, Jonah Rockoff, and Heather Schwartz

Going Down With the Ship? The Effect of School Accountability on the Distribution of Teacher Experience in California

David Sims

Left Behind by Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability

Derek Neal and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Has NCLB Set Back Science and Social Studies?

Dale Ballou and Jeffrey Springer

Remarks from Executive Director, Council of the Great City Schools

Michael Casserly

Discussions of NCLB and Student Achievement

Steven Glazerman and Steven Rivkin

Discussion of Teachers and NCLB

Kirabo Jackson

NCLB and the Teacher Workforce

Susanna Loeb

“The subject of teacher pensions is a critical and understudied area for education reform, both because of the effects on the teacher workforce and on school finance. Districts are looking for new ways to recruit and retain high quality teachers in their on-going efforts to raise student achievement and narrow achievement gaps, and the structure of retirement benefits is a potentially important factor. Many states and districts also face increasing costs for their current retirement benefit systems – possibly exacerbated by recent developments in the value of pension funds.”