The “Accountability Plateau”
Have we hit a plateau in student achievement in this nation? In a paper released today, Mark Schneider suggests that yes, we have.Schneider was asked to study student achievement in Texas over the past few years, at the time their Governor Rick Perry was a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. Education Secretary Arne Duncan had suggested that Perry ran an inadequate school system, and the Fordham Institute wanted to determine whether or not that was true.
As Schneider reviews, Texas’ performance on the National