Rural Schools and Academic Achievement

This thesis seeks to answer the question: what is the impact of mandated testing on rural schools and how well do students perform? Standards-based education reform movement begun during the 1980\u27s, is driven by the need to create academic standards for what students should know and be able to do. Currently, No Child Left Behind requires every state to set standards for grade-level achievement. Examing scores from two rural counties in Kentucky showed the complexity of analysing results of standardized testing