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Rethinking the Federal Role in Elementary and Secondary EducationThe Center on Education Policy has undertaken a project to rethink the federal role in elementary and secondary education. As a first step, CEP has commissioned a series of papers on key issues, requiring the authors to provide evidence of the effects of various programs and initiatives, and to provide recommendations. Each paper is peer-reviewed by individuals with diverse points of view on the issue. Also, CEP convened a series of public forums to discuss several of the papers. The result of these efforts will be a set of recommendations for President Obama and the new Congress for shaping the federal role in elementary and secondary education. Rethinking the Federal Role in Elementary and Secondary Education: Summaries of Commissioned Papers Below are the commissioned papers that have been completed as of April 2, 2009. Others will be posted when finalized. Federal Aid to Elementary and Secondary Education: Premises, Effects, and Major Lessons Learned Standards-Based Reform in the United States: History, Research, and Future Directions The Role of Assessment in Federal Education Programs Demographic Trends and the Federal Role in Education The Federal Role in Education: Lessons from Australia, Germany, and Canada Advancing ECE2 Policy: Early Childhood Education (ECE) and its Quest for Excellence, Coherence, and Equity (ECE) The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and Family Involvement as Critical Learning Supports From PLATO to Podcasts: Fifty Years of Federal Involvement in Educational Technology National Efforts to Bring Reform to Scale in America’s High-Poverty Elementary and Secondary Schools: Outcomes and Implications Fifty Years of Federal Teacher Policy: An Appraisal What the Federal Government Can Do to Improve High School Performance Related PapersTwo other papers that are informing this project to rethink the federal role in elementary and secondary education were developed in 2004 for a CEP forum on the No Child Left Behind Act. Ruminations Regarding NCLB'S Most Malignant Provision: Adequate Yearly Progress Rethinking the No Child Left Behind Accountability System Compendium of Key Studies of the No Child Left Behind ActAs part of our project to rethink the federal role in elementary and secondary education, CEP has prepared this compendium, which summarizes the findings of major studies of the implementation and effects of NCLB conducted by various organizations and agencies. |