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Helping Some Students May Harm High Achievers

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-dragging-us-down dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Every sperm is sacret by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are a teacher/trainer but can't spell "sacred"?

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  2. Re:Death Coil by Ngarrang · · Score: 0, Troll

    But, according to the liberals in charge of the NKLB Policy, its okay to let the smart kids suffer as long as the slower kids are meant to feel 'bad' about being slower.

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  3. Nah by dugeen · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's the problem? Students who are genuinely intelligent can look after themselves. The people on here defending the 'improve the best, chuck out the rest' solution are clearly not intelligent, but just using this issue to prop up their egos. They coulda been a contender.