On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Adam Tyner, Fordham’s national research director, joins Mike to discuss disparities by race and socioeconomic status among America’s highest achieving students. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber discusses a new report from the ACT that analyzes the evidence of grade inflation since 2010.

Recommended content:

• “Excellence gaps by race and socioeconomic status” —Meredith Coffey and Adam Tyner
• “America’s highest-achieving students are disproportionately Asian. Let’s not be afraid to investigate why.” —Michael Petrilli and Amber M. Northern
• Edgar L. Sanchez, “Evidence of grade inflation since 2010 in high school English, mathematics, social studies, and science courses,” ACT (August 2023).

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