The gifted children left behind

 With reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act high on the agenda as Congress returns from its recess, lawmakers must confront the fact that the law is causing many concerned parents to abandon public schools that are not failing. Susan Goodkin, the executive director of the California Learning Strategies Center, an education think tank, and David G. Gold, a lecturer and consultant on strategic issues in negotiation, write in today’s Washington Post that NCLB has created “a fundamental educational approach so inappropriate for high-ability students that it destroys their interest in learning.” Read more of their column.