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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks here keep talking about "truly gifted" and describing them only in Einstein terms which would only be the category for profoundly gifted.

You do realize that there is a range of gifted from mildly gifted to profoundly gifted and that not all gifted kids give the appearance of an Einstein, don't you?? In fact, even Einstein was told he was a failure as a student and his teachers never thought of him as gifted at all. In fact, they thought the opposite of Einstein!

DC has unusual demographics with a lot of high powered, educated people here and therefore, it is quite plausible that DC has a higher concentration of gifted students here.

Those who diss gifted education, hurt disadvantaged gifted students in DC too by regulating them to classes filled with students years behind them where their needs are unlikely to be met.

As for test prep and people trying to game the system to get access to gifted education, I say so what. As long as a student can maintain passing grades in gifted education classes, then the more the merrier IMHO. School districts should also offer free test prep to any student who desires it and all children should be assessed for giftedness via traditional testing and via teacher insights.[/quote]

Why not just take the top 2% of NNAT and CoGAT scores, no appeals?[/quote]

+1. NYC basically takes the top 3% of the entrance tests for their magnet programs - some starting in K - with strict cutoff, no appeals.  But there has always been controversy because the population skews majority Asian at schools like Stuy.

Same thing will happen in DC except here it will skew majority white - which is untenable, politically.[/quote]

If we're really just talking about identifying and challenging "well-prepared" kids, then in-class differentiation should work. As should the "AP classes for all" approach already used by DC high schools--if you're invested and are willing to work to keep up, you're in.

So why do we need gifted tracking again?[/quote]

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