Originally Posted by Bostonian
What do you when measures of intellectual merit, such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (now just the "SAT"), IQ tests, and the SHSAT (the test used for admission to NYC public schools) exhibit large group differences? I say accept the reality that there *are* large group differences and stop mandating equal results by group (as NCLB does). Most people want to avoid the question.

This is a bit off (my own!) topic, but I am currently reading Charles Murray's Real Education. What I have read so far doesn't address group differences, but it agrees with you that NCLB has been a disaster at both ends of the IQ distribution.