A weekend story at the Washington Post, "The Gifted Children Left Behind," offers an interesting portrait of what’s happening in schools as a result of No Child Left Behind. There is a push to the middle, with the top and bottom being ignored, according to a University of Chicago Study by Derek Neal, Left Behind by Design. I wonder if sudden worries about the "top" students will get anyone’s attention; concerns about leaving behind the bottom of the class certainly hasn’t. Worth reading. I am struck also that education always seems to be in crisis.