palegray.net writes "According to a new study performed by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in Washington, increased emphasis on helping students with a history of lower academic achievement results in lower performance for high achievers. This trend appears to be related to the No Child Left Behind Act. From the NYTimes article:
A new study argues that the nation's focus on helping students who are furthest behind may have produced a Robin Hood effect, yielding steady academic gains for low-achieving students in recent years at the expense of top students.
The study, to be released on Wednesday, compared trends in scores on federal tests for the bottom 10 percent of students nationwide with those for the top 10 percent and said those at the bottom moved up faster than those at the top.
Essentially, programs designed to devote a large number of resources to assisting students who are deemed to be "significantly behind" leave little room for encouraging continued academic growth for higher-performing students." Link to Original Source
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