Top Student Crisis!: A Call for Trickle-Down Education Reform
Top Student Crisis!: A Call for Trickle-Down Education Reform
The elite minds at The Thomas B. Fordham Institute have unmasked a serious but neglected crisis in education:
The answer? According to Rick Hess, "We are shortchanging America’s brightest students, and we’re doing it reflexively and furtively."
The top students in U.S. schools are in crisis, and the economic competitiveness of our country hangs in the
"[M]any high-achieving students struggle to maintain their elite performance over the years and often fail to improve their reading ability at the same rate as their average and below-average classmates. The study raises troubling questions: Is our obsession with closing achievement gaps and 'leaving no child behind' coming at the expense of our 'talented tenth'—and America’s future international competitiveness?"This study has prompted Room for Debate at The New York Times to ask: "Are Top Students Getting Short Shrift?"
The answer? According to Rick Hess, "We are shortchanging America’s brightest students, and we’re doing it reflexively and furtively."
The top students in U.S. schools are in crisis, and the economic competitiveness of our country hangs in the
