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How About the Gifted?
A recent study by the Center on Education Policy indicated that No Child Left Behind is raising the performance of low-achieving children. Surprisingly, the study further indicated that the performance of high-achieving children has risen as well. This is an unexpected result since No Child Left Behind provides no incentives for schools to accelerate the progress of high-achieving students.
However, in a New York Times column (8/28/09), Tom Loveless and Michael Petrilli cited several flaws in the study. They concluded that low-achieving students are indeed making significant gains, but that high-achieving students have been making much smaller gains. Indeed, their gains have been no greater than those before the enactment of No Child Left Behind.
Since the beginning of No Child Left Behind, many educators have expressed concern that some students would be left behind – the gifted. We applaud the heartening results for low-achieving students. What can we do to attain similar gains at the other end of the achievement curve?
Thanks to How-To-Study for running this cool site! My mother and mother-in-law are teachers and they have expressed similar concern regarding “No Child Left Behind”. The difference in the gifted and the low-achieving students is the difference in work ethic and having goals. Technology is making it easy for kids to set goals and stay aware of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtgKUXMcHPc