This report just looks at the data; it doesn’t speculate about causes. But Jennings says it’s clear that something different needs to be done.
“This is in a way saying that we’ve gone through 10 years of talk and some action, but if we’re serious about this, we have to do much more and do it a lot faster,” he says.
Others are even more pointed.
“We’ve now reached the end of the No Child Left Behind decade, which featured sustained attention to boosting achievement of minority and low-income students, and the results are far from what anybody would have hoped for,” says Frederick Hess, the American Enterprise Institute’s director of education policy studies. “The way I interpret this is that most of the purported solutions tend to be iterations of doing the same thing over and over.”
