Anecdotal gripes that gifted children are not getting their needs met abound. Take this post from a gifted-education advocate that states: "Schools in America are not being evaluated equitably, and the gifted children are among the ones who are suffering" and "NCLB does not even talk about gifted and talented children--our country's greatest natural resource."
Flypaper readers will be happy to learn that we have an upcoming study titled "High-Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB" written by esteemed Brookings Institution scholar Tom Loveless due to be released in the next month. As its title suggests, it will examine empirically how gifted students have fared during the NCLB era. Stay tuned to find out whether anecdotes and opinions about meeting gifted children's needs have any relationship to their academic progress.
