Nora recalls reading about a 1964 experiment at an elementary school in which the organizers gave teachers a list of students who they expect to make tremendous progress throughout the year based on test scores. They discovered that those students did make tremendous progress. However, in reality the organizers didn’t create the list from test scores but rather at random just the fact that the teachers expected certain students to do well impacted whether or not those students did improve.
The Report Card is a 2004 middle grade novel by prolific children’s author Andrew Clements that tells the story of a young genius who has kept her intelligence a secret for her entire life.
