High Achieving Students in the Era of No Child Left Behind

This Fordham Institute’s report contains two separate studies examining the status of high-achieving students in the No Child Left Behind era. In the first, Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution analyzes results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and concludes that the nation’s top pupils have“languished” academically while the lowest-performing youngsters have gained dramatically. The second study, by survey researchers Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett, finds that most teachers feel pressure to focus primarily on their lowest achieving students and neglect the high achievers, even though this offends their sense of fairness.

The full report is available on the Fordham Institute's website at www.edexcellence.net/detail/news.cfm?news_id=732&id=92.