Here are just a few recent pieces where Fordham experts share their thoughts and insights....
Mike Petrilli, along with Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution, penned an opinion piece that ran in the NY Times this week. In it, the two men argued that high-achieving students haven't fared so well in the No Child Left Behind era. (Click here to read our 2008 report on this very topic.) They raised questions about a recent study that indicated NCLB is raising the scores of students on both ends of the academic spectrum. And they pointed to evidence such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which "found relatively little progress among our highest-achieving students (those in the top 10 percent) from 2000 to 2007, while the bottom 10 percent made phenomenal gains."
Checker Finn, meanwhile, discussed the latest SAT scores (he wasn't happy) with the Wall Street Journal. A piece he wrote on the same topic ran on Forbes.com. In it, he called the latest results "a real bummer, since, in a nutshell: "Overall scores are flat or down. Almost every subgroup is flat or down. Gaps are widening slightly by race, income and parental education." He then mentioned other assessment results, including ACT, before discussing what all of this says about education reform efforts.
And Checker shared his thoughts on the late Senator Ted Kennedy with Education Week. You can read that here.