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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is in Loudoun County Futura program. Looks like this is similar to the Prince William County program. It is once a week pullout program at a different center. This is not aligned with the curriculum. Kids get to do challenging projects. [b]The Fairfax AAP program is an [b]enrichment program[/b] it is not a gifted program[/b]. Futura is a gifted program.[/quote]

Don't be misled by the complainers.  [/quote]

Actually you have the terminology confused here.  The FFX AAP is not an enrichment program--it's a holistic curriculum that is advanced in some ways (deeper thinking, project-based, more complex texts and problems) and accelerated in others (math curriculum is covered at a faster rate so that students are taught above grade) and students take aptitude/IQ  tests to qualify (along with other info) but it is no longer named a "Gifted" program due to distaste for that term and a focus more on labeling the curriculum--"advanced academics"--than the students "gifted and talented." At the highest level, kids are drawn from multiple elementary schools to attend an "AAP center" where all academics are taught in this way.  Students can also receive different proportions of this advanced curriculum at their base schools.

The Prince William program and Loudoun Futura (and other pullout programs) are enrichment programs.  They often occur once a week and pose challenging problems to enrich the standard curriculum for students also identified via aptitude/IQ tests (along with other info). Some enrichment programs call the identified students "gifted." Educational research suggests that a holistic curriulum like Fairfax's is a more appropriate, rigorous and effective support for students with high aptitude than a pull-out program like Futura or Prince William.  But pull-out programs are far more common as they are easier to implement (adding on a brief program rather than altering a whole curriculum and busing students to different schools). [/quote]

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