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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the article, and it's not exactly showing that kids benefit from advanced programming, it's more about creating a 1.5 gifted program, between GT and gen ed.

Sounds like a good idea, but some of the lines did make me wince.  This one, for example:  Ford described Louisiana’s IQ cutoff score as “one of the highest” in the country. “I think those criteria are untenable if you really want to desegregate your gifted programs.”[/quote]

I did not click on the link, but aren't Lousiana's schools abysmal? How can their IQ criteria be among the highest in the country when their public schools are so poor?[/quote]

The referenced IQ critieria is two standard deviations above, or 130.  If IQ is innate (or mostly innate), then quality of public schools is irrelevant -- if IQ depends partly on education, then this program is designed to improve the education at a public school for the identified students.  The article also noted that the GT programs were typically very small and not at all diverse.  [/quote]

130 is not the highest used. It is a fairly standard cut off in the states I have lived in.

Is it that they have few kids qualify for their program because most of the familes of smart kids or families that care about education in Lousiana have their kids in private or Catholic schools?[/quote]

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