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School Choice and Educational Equity under No Child Left Behind in the Post-Brown

No Child Left Behind and other Federal Programs for Urban School Districts

ISBN: 978-0-76231-299-3, eISBN: 978-1-84950-404-1

Publication date: 22 August 2006

Abstract

America began the process of funding public education beyond the military colleges and American Indian School in 1965 with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). ESEA has evolved over the past 40 years to be called No Child Left Behind (NCLB). NCLB has had three major evaluations in which I participated in the last two evaluations by the U.S. Department of Education and each evaluation found that NCLB did not make a difference in the education lives of the students who received services from the program; but it did not harm. This chapter explored all the school choice options available to k-12 students in public and private schools; and reviewed the evaluation of these school choice options. Research reveals that for disadvantaged students, traditional public schools outperform private schools and charter schools. Voucher programs are also reviewed. This chapter concludes that educational equity is not adequately addressed by NCLB, school choice programs, charter schools or the traditional public schools.

Citation

Brown, F. (2006), "School Choice and Educational Equity under No Child Left Behind in the Post-Brown", Brown, F. and Hunter, R.C. (Ed.) No Child Left Behind and other Federal Programs for Urban School Districts (Advances in Educational Administration, Vol. 9), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 37-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1479-3660(06)09003-2

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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