Standards-based reform and the poverty gap: lessons for No Child Left Behind

Introduction : can standards-based reform help reduce the poverty gap in education? / Adam Gamoran

Standards-based educational reform is one important step toward reducing the achievement gap / Barbara R. Foorman, Sharon J. Kalinowski, and Waynel L. Sexton

How did the statewide assessment and accountability policies of the 1990s affect instructional quality in low-income elementary schools? / Meredith Phillips and Jennifer Flashman

Has NCLB improved teacher and teaching quality for disadvantaged students? / Laura M. Desimone, Thomas M. Smith, and David Frisvold

Grade retention in the age of standards-based reform / Robert M. Hauser, Carl B. Frederick, and Megan Andrew

Do high school exit exams influence educational attainment or labor market performance? / Thomas S. Dee and Brian A. Jacob

The role of tutoring in standards-based reform / George Farkas and Rachel E. Durham

NCLB school choice and children in poverty / Paul T. Hill

The peculiar politics of No Child Left Behind / Tom Loveless

NCLB lessons learned : implications for reauthorization / Andrew C. Porter.