A recent NBC news post by Maggie Fox,their senior health writer, details the explosion of ADHD and its correlation to accountability testing. She interviewed the authors of the book, The ADHD Explosion, who had some very interesting insights to share.
This diagnosis (and the medication that follows) is believed to "bump up" test scores. Could this be true? Or is it, as the article hints, that kids diagnosed with ADHD don't "count" on the same testing frames and by omitting them, the schools' score rise?
