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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is pretty easy.  The US government and most states don't provide any funding for gifted education.  If there was any priority at all in our educational system to support and nourish STEM talent then these talented kids could surely do great things. Other countries value and nuture talent and provide a foundation for these children to meet their potential.

Our society for the most part supports this practice and can't put two and two together.  Talent can't develop unless it's nurtured.  Our most talented students are the ones being left behind in the current system.  We have turned our backs as a country on the children who have the potential to make great contributions in the fields of math and science yet we still wonder why we are so far behind.  It is maddening to me.[/quote]

Not true...read the National Science Foundation's research which was linked earlier in the thread.

Um, foreigner here. Actually, the US nurtures its gifted children far more than almost any other country, by placing them in separate classes with dedicated curricula from an early age. In many other countries this practice would be frowned upon as unegalitarian. What other countries do though, is that they generally have higher standards from the get go, and children who do not meet them by middle school are generally diverted towards tracks that better match either their intellectual ability or willingness to work hard at academic subjects.[/quote]
Not true...read the National Science Foundation's research which was linked earlier in the thread.[/quote]

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