Commentary
Commentary
Advanced Education
America and its high-potential kids
Throughout much of 2013, a colleague and I worked on a project related to America’s highest-potential boys and girls, students colloquially known as “gifted.” Though I learned a great deal, it was mostly a discouraging enterprise.
Commentary
Advanced Education
It’s a bad idea to use a lottery system for varsity football…and for varsity courses
Lottery systems are too common in education. And while it’s the fairest way to allocate a limited number of seats at, say, an oversubscribed, high-performing charter school, it’s not the way forward when it comes to Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Unfortunately, that’s the direction some California school districts may be heading.
Commentary
Advanced Education
Columbus school reform shouldn’t forget the whiz kids
High-ability low-income students could get lost in the shuffle in Columbus