Parent Resources and High School Quality in the Context of the Rural Gap in Postsecondary Educational Attainment
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Education reform has swept the United States during the last two decades and was codified as national policy with the No Child Left Behind law of 2002.1 The reform movement has taken for its primary goal the improvement of elementary and middle school education. Improved student performance at these levels, it was believed, would bring about greater high school student performance as a matter of course. Recently, however, closer attention is being paid to the continued lackluster performance of America’s high schools and the implications this holds for graduates ’ inadequate preparation for work and postsecondary education. The National Education Summit on High Schools, held in February 2005 in Washington, DC, issued a strongly worded critique, “Our high school students ’ lack of preparedness has serious implications for our economy and prosperity ” (Achieve, Inc. and National Governors Association, 2005, p. 1). They also set forth an “action agenda ” to improve the nation’s high schools that stresses making coursework more demanding. Most educators agree that school quality is critical to helping prepare students for their futures, but the components of school quality have long been debated among
Author: Edward B. Reeves
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6995689185