Staking Out the Successful Student

Creator

Christopher Brown

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

February 2005

Abstract

With the performance of students, teachers, and schools defining success under current standards-based accountability policies ...; No Child Left Behind Act, ... school districts are implementing various forms of intervention programs as a means to improve student performance. By examining a pilot summer school program that is transitioning from a ‘low-stakes’ to a ‘high-stakes’ intervention program, this article examines the possibilities that exist for students to author themselves as learners, and it questions whether opportunities for students to identify themselves as successful learners are lost when an intervention program, such as summer school, becomes mandatory. ...

Keywords

United States. No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

Extent

30

Volume

13

Issue

14

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Note

Citation: Brown, C. (2005, February 17). Staking out the successful student. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 13(14). Retrieved [date] from http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v13n14

Identifier

E11-00436

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Brown, Christopher, "Staking Out the Successful Student" (2005). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 150.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/150