The Center for Advanced Social Science Research, and
Institute of Human Development and Social Change
Present:
Sean Reardon
Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology
Director, Stanford Interdisciplinary Doctoral Training Program
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
" Left Behind? The Effect of NCLB on Academic
Achievement Gaps"
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
12:30-1:50pm
295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor
Rudin Room
One of the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was to close racial and socioeconomic
achievement gaps. Ten years have passed since NCLB went into effect. This research
investigates whether the Act has been successful at narrowing racial achievement gaps. We do so
by estimating the within-state association between the number of years that a cohort has been
exposed to NCLB by a particular grade and the size of that cohort’s achievement gap in that
grade, net of state-specific cohort and grade trends. In addition, we investigate how the effect of
NCLB on achievement gaps varies among states.