A Poor Child May be Left Behind
Friday, July 01, 2005
- Organization: Eureka
- Link: http://www.eurekalert.org
The federal No Child Left Behind Act mandates standardized testing of students in public schools. A study published in the latest issue of Psychological Science is one of the first and only to use a model of scientifically grounded research to test and show that students' poverty level and location do affect their performance on these high-stakes achievement tests, as it limits their access to qualified instructors.
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