Lead Articles : No Child Left behind Contingencies , Macrocontingencies , and Metacontingencies in Current Educational Practices : No Child Left behind ?

Causal Inference in Educational Policy Research

With the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), attention has focused on the need for evidenced-based educational research, particularly educational policies and interventions that rest on what NCLB refers to as ”scientifically based research”. In practice, this focus on scientifically based educational research has translated into a preference for research studies based on the principles of r...

The Effect of the No Child Left Behind Act on Per-Student Public Education Expenditures at the State Level

The purpose of the present study is to determine if the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in 2002 resulted in a statistically-significant increase in per-student public educational expenditures at the state level. In addition, it will be determined if federal funding was sufficient to support compliance with NCLB. Although numerous studies have estimated the effects of various gove...

Individual behavior, culture, and social change.

The principle of operant selection is examined as a prototype of cultural selection, and the role of the social environment is suggested as the critical element in the emergence of cultural phenomena. Operant contingencies are compared to cultural selection contingencies, designated as metacontingencies. Both of these types of contingency relations result in evolving lineages of recurrences tha...

Journal of Educational Psychology What No Child Left Behind Leaves Behind: The Roles of IQ and Self-Control in Predicting Standardized Achievement Test Scores and Report Card Grades

Lessons for Education from Other Sectors

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