Are Best and Brightest Getting Shafted?
It depends on their zip code, a pair of researchers suggest.
Christopher Yaluma and Adam Tyner of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that:
~”More than two-thirds of elementary and middle schools have gifted programs.
~”Overall, high-poverty schools are just as likely as low-poverty schools to have them.
~”Yet students in low-poverty schools are more than twice as likely to participate in such programs.
~”Even when black and Hispanic students have gifted programs in their elementary and middle schools, they participate at much lower rates than their peers.
~”In schools with gifted programs, only Maryland, Kentucky, and New Hampshire enroll more than 10 percent of the state’s black and Hispanic students in those programs; in twenty-two states it’s less than 5 percent.”
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Malcolm A. Kline
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