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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/district-introduces-gifted-programs-to-push-talented-students-keep-families/2015/06/06/4132f25e-ffc8-11e4-833c-a2de05b6b2a4_story.html[/quote]

The SEM approach is really not the same thing.  The bottom line is that we do need to track some students.  Its just completely wrong to expect kids who perform two levels above grade to be in the same classroom with kids two levels behind.  the achievement gap in DC might be the highest in the country, if a school ever needed tracking its this one.   [/quote]

In terms of adopting a GT program, DCPS has intentionally selected SEM, with the understanding that this is not a "traditional" gifted program. The two are not analogous, of course, but please don't think "Gifted programs, lack of, in DC" as the topic of this thread is just the result of an oversight. It is intentional. Traditional gifted programs, in the perspective given by DCPS, are not effective or useful (more likely of potential harmfulness) and were therefore not implemented. Real differentiation, with appropriate instructional resources and adequate professional development, along with flexible homogenous groupings (no one is saying that can't or shouldn't occur), along with the SEM approach are what DCPS has aligned itself with.[/quote]

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