[Ohiogift] "all high school studnets count, not just low performers."

[Margaret DeLacy]

Friends:

Below is a link to and excerpt from a comment by Chester Finn that appeared in the Fordham Institute newsletter this week. My comment is that high school is way too late to start thinking about whether we are serving high-achieving and gifted students.  By then, many of them have lost interest in learning.

Margaret


All high school students count, not just low performers, Chester E. Finn, Jr. ,November 16, 2016

https://edexcellence.net/articles/all-high-school-students-count-not-just-low-performers?utm_source=Fordham+Updates&utm_campaign=a1483ba963-20160918_LateLateBell9_16_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d9e8246adf-a1483ba963-71517261&mc_cid=a1483ba963&mc_eid=3e3a665b43

"It’s important for America’s future that we persevere in that journey, because our track record at the high end of academic achievement at the high school level has been seriously disappointing for far too long. Whatever modest gains we wrought in the early grades in the NCLB era, as gauged by measures such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), twelfth-grade scores have been flatlining for decades, especially at what NAEP terms an advanced level. The same is true of SAT and ACT scores. As for international metrics such as PISA and TIMSS, we’re being sorely outclassed by far too many other countries, both in the fraction of our young people who reach the upper ranks on those metrics and in the representation of lower-SES and minority youngsters (save for Asian Americans) among those who do make it."