CAP Experts Dismantle the Right’s Alarmist Rhetoric Around High-Performing Students

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–October 14, 2011.  Today the Center for American Progress released a column dismantling claims that federal school accountability efforts are hurting our nation’s best and brightest students.

A recent report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute claimed that the nation’s efforts to close achievement gaps by focusing on improving the test scores of our lowest-performing students may be coming at the expense of the students who score in the top 10 percent on standardized…