Students with Disabilities Said to Benefit from NCLB

According to a report released by the National Council on Disability, NCLB seems to have led to academic gains for students with disabilities, though it is too soon to definitively link the two.

In the 10 states that were examined closely, students with disabilities appear to be performing better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress when they are in elementary school, but those gains seem to dissipate by the time the students reach middle school.

This seems to make intuitive sense, as one of the only things even the most ardent critics of the law (e.g. Jon Kozol) and its supporters can agree on is that NCLB raised the issue of not letting marginalized groups fall by the wayside.