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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Grade acceleration is generally a bad idea because the kids can end up being socially isolated. I know more than one person who skipped grades and then ended up dropping out of college for a while because being so much younger than their peers made it hard.[/quote] Your anecdotal experience has long been disproven by actual research. [i]There is general consensus in the field, supported by the extant literature, that acceleration is a uniquely appropriate instructional strategy for gifted learners (Argys, Rees, & Brewer, 1996; Colangelo, Assouline, & Gross, 2004). (...) Few studies find negative social or affective consequences associated with acceleration for groups of students, [/i] Read it yourself: https://www.apa.org/ed/schools/gifted/rethinking-giftedness.pdf [/quote]
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