Monthly Archives: March 2009

No Child Left Behind may be a drag on the gifted

The school accountability movement is leaving the nation’s most gifted students behind, according to a report released yesterday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

The report, "High-Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB," uses scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress to compare changes in the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent of students since the introduction of No Child Left Behind.

The evidence against NCLB is overwhelming, so why can’t the government just let local districts manage themselves?