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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to put too fine a point on it, but APS has one goal with regards to its gifted students: to create a semblance of a program that appears to do something (so as not to lose too many of those students to private and other systems), while in fact doing as little as possible.

APS leadership, both the board and the superintendent, have made clear over and over again that their primary goal is closing the "achievement gap." That is the main metric by which they measure themselves these days. That is a noble goal. With the possible exception of adopting science-based literacy approaches, APS' efforts over the last five years have barely moved the needle.

In that environment, it's clear that putting significant effort into improving the performance of the top 10-20% of students would be totally self-defeating. Whatever meager gains have been made in closing the "gap" by improvements in the lowest-performers will be wiped out by improvements in the top performers.

If closing the achievement gap is your organization's top priority, then a successful gifted ed program is indistinguishable from failure. [/quote]
You’re right. Many of the gifted  are 99th percentile already, they don’t show much growth [/quote]

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