main
community
50 state info P-e K-12 Postsecondary issues a-z contact staff newsletters ecs twitter facebook

Document Number: 7681

Accountability Incentives: Do Schools Practice Educational Triage? - Increasingly frequent journalistic accounts report that schools are responding to NCLB by engaging in what has come to be known as “educational triage.” Although these accounts rely almost entirely on anecdotal evidence, the prospect is of real concern. To search for evidence of educational triage, the author analyzed three years of test-score and other data on 300,000 students in public schools in a western state. (Matthew Springer, Education Next, Winter 2008)...


Related Issues

No Child Left Behind

 
Home  |   Issues A-Z  |  States and Territories  |  Meetings and Events  |  Newsroom  |  Publications  |  About ECS  |  Projects and Institutes  |  Web Site User's Guide  |  Contact Staff
700 Broadway, #810 Denver, CO 80203-3442
Phone: 303.299.3600 | Fax: 303.296.8332
 
©2013 Education Commission of the States
www.ecs.org | ecs@ecs.org
Read our privacy policy