No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of

No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform highlights the scholarship of eight doctoral students in curriculum and their professor, who took on the legal, political, philosophical, social, cultural, economic, and curricular assumptions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). This book, the manifestation of their work, is a critical examination of the impact of the NCLB on the lives of children, families, and teachers.

Foreword

v

Debra Freedman

Preface

ix

Thomas S. Poetter

The Impact of NCLB on Curriculm, Teaching, and Assesment

1

(14)

Thomas S. Poetter

Sister Stella's Story

15

(14)

Jennifer L. Bird

No Cartesian Left Behind

29

(12)

Robert Karaba

No Child Left Behind: The Scenes Behind the Act

41

(8)

Shewanee Howard

NCLB: Nexus of Citizens Learning the Business, Neoliberalism, and the No Child Left Behind Act

49

(14)

Kathryn LaFever

No Child Left Behind Educational Act: Implications for the Education of Refugee Children

63

(14)

Oliver Kenyi A. Mogga

The First Day of School

77

(14)

Catherine Haerr

The No Child Left Behind Act and Containment of Social Change

91

(18)

Guy L. Parmigian

NCLB and the Domestication of Citizenship

109

(20)

Joe Wegwert

Index

129

(2)

Contributors Biographies

131

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No Child Left Behind and the Illusion of Reform Critical Essays by Educators

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