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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole report is about race. How do you increase the URM percentage if they cannot compete on the magnet application process. No?

Some approach such as more outreach we can all get behind. [b]Using bogus standard such as the noncognitive measures[/b] is bullshit that needs to be stopped.[/quote]

Yup, pretty sure HGC success is tied to cognitive measures.[/quote]

My kid is in the HGC. Non-cognitive measures have also been very important for success in the HGC for my kid. Self-discipline, for example. Motivation. Persistence. Organization. What has your kid's experience been?[/quote]

These traits absolutely contribute to success. But it is not advisable to use them in selection foe gifted program. First, if you think ability testing is a mess, then these traits are much much harder to measure. Second, highly gifted kids are sometimes asynchronous in their development and therefore may present as not motivated and not disciplined in regular classroom, they may need the hgc more than the disciplined and mature peers.[/quote]

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