Closing the Educational Achievement Gap

The Freakonomics blog asks what can be done to close the academic achievement gap between black and white students. Lets ignore the race issue and consider how we could close the gap between all high and low achievement kids. Here are two easy ways:

(1) Allow high achieving kids to attend school only two days a week.

(2) Give low but not high achieving kids Modafinil.

I bet these two ideas would work far better than anything discussed in the above linked extremely lengthy Freakonomics blog post.