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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Where well-heeled PTAs pony up for teachers aides, or pay for enough stuff so that schools can afford them past K (e.g. at Janney, Murch and Brent) gifted elementary school kids are increasingly pulled out for enrichment systematically."

Not true at Janney.  The advanced kids are offered the option of doing more challenging homework, and have the opportunity on certain assignments/projects to do more work, but there aren't pull outs for the advanced kids.

And differentiation is far different from gifted education, and it doesn't ensure that all kids' needs are being met.[/quote]

[b]So there's not ability-level grouping at Janney, within classes? THey don't meet in small groups with the teacher or an aide? I'm shocked, honestly. This happens in every class at Murch.[/b]

In terms of whether it meets all kids' needs and whether it's "gifted education," I guess we need to define our terms. Because if we're talking about profoundly gifted kids--the ones who are doing calculus in elementary school, etc.--you're right. But then what you're really talking about is a tiny, tiny percentage of the population, maybe a couple of kids at each school (if that).

But if you're talking about the sort of gifted education that tracks kids who are performing significantly above grade level (say, a 2nd grader reading on a 5th grade level), then I can say from experience that in-class differentiation does, in fact, meet those needs. [/quote]

No, this doesn't happen at Janney.  I think the population at Janney is far more homogeneous than that at Murch.  [/quote]

Maybe..although at Murch in a class with five groups, three are working at or above grade level. So there's differentiation within the "advanced" kids, as well.[/quote]

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