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Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers
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. 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."
No. It's not about finance.
It's about finding ways to challenge the studnets.
When I was in elementary and junior high, the school split us into classes based on academic results so far.
It worked very well. There was far less variation between the bottom and top of the class and the teachers could do a much better job of teaching to the class.
This is now deemed to be prejudicial and so the school no longer does this. The students are the losers across the board.