Commentary
Curriculum & Instruction, Advanced Education
How tracking can raise the test scores of high-ability minority students
By David Griffith
By David Griffith
By Robert Pondiscio
By Robert Pondiscio
By Michael J. Petrilli
By Jeff Murray
The goal of gifted programs should reflect that of any other educational program: to engage students with appropriately challenging curricula and instruction on a daily basis and in all relevant content areas so that they can make continual academic growth.
In Education for Upward Mobility, editor Michael J. Petrilli and more than a dozen leading scholars and policy analysts seek answers to a fundamental question: How can we help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults? And in particular, what role can our schools play?