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- Title
Gifted Children Left Behind by Design.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study which suggests that schools are focusing on students in the middle and leaving behind students at the far ends of the academic ability spectrum, the least able students and those who are gifted. Using a simple mathematical model, the researchers studied the achievement of students in the public schools in Chicago, Illinois. To measure the impact of the new school system, the study compared reading and mathematics scores for students in fifth, sixth, or eighth grades in the year or years after the changes had taken place with those made by similar cohorts of students a few years earlier. Researchers also made observations regarding the effects of No Child Left Behind Act.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; EDUCATION research; SLOW learning children; EDUCATION of gifted children; MIDDLE school education; ACADEMIC achievement; NO Child Left Behind Act of 2001
- Publication
Gifted Child Today, 2008, Vol 31, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
1076-2175
- Publication type
Article