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No Child Left behind Act
Adequate Yearly Progress
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References
Jennings, J. L., & Lauen, D. L. (2016). Accountability, inequality, and achievement: The effects of the No Child Left Behind act on multiple measures of student learning. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2(5), 220-241. Retrieved from; https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/2/5/220.abstract
Markowitz, A. J. (2018). Changes in school engagement as a function of No Child Left Behind: A comparative interrupted time series analysis. American educational research journal, 55(4), 721-760. Retrieved from; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3102/0002831218755668