Advanced Education

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Commentary
5.25.2016
Advanced Education

The importance of robust state gifted policies

If you had a magic wand and could change one thing to ensure the availability of great gifted education services for students in your community, what would it be? A state mandate? More funding? A wide array of service requirements based on what we know about giftedness and best practices for promoting the development of high-ability learners?

Commentary
5.10.2016
Advanced Education

Honoring giftedness in the black community

At the turn of the twentieth century, scholars and politicians alike were wrestling with a new America. It was the end of Reconstruction, and race relations in the country were coming to the fore of the national conversation. Sociologists and politicians were embroiled in contentious discussions that would shape the nation’s development.

Commentary
5.4.2016
Advanced Education

Students need opportunities to flex their creative muscles

Although we consider creativity and critical thinking two of the most important skills today, children often have limited opportunities to flex their creative muscles. Parents and teachers need to encourage creative children to find at least one outlet, along with venues and audiences to showcase their work.

Commentary
4.29.2016
Advanced Education

America's Report Card: We're still ignoring low-income high-achievers

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Brandon L. Wright

Last week, the Department of Education released the 2015 Nation’s Report Card for twelfth graders. As with the fourth- and eighth-grade scores provided last fall, there was little to celebrate. In the core subjects of math and reading, average scores held firm at the same unimpressive level they’ve been at since 2009.

Commentary
4.21.2016
Advanced Education

No child is just born gifted: Creating and developing unlimited potential

Observing what a young person is capable of is always exciting. Many of the limits we thought children had do not seem to be as absolute as we once believed. The more we study children, the more we discover that our beliefs are limited, not the abilities of kids.Are children born gifted?

Commentary
4.19.2016
Advanced Education

San Antonio's plan to serve high-achievers

Over the past year, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has published numerous articles (including a book) explaining how schools across the country are overlooking high-achieving poor students.

Commentary
4.6.2016
Advanced Education

Dispelling the myths around gifted education

How often have you heard, “Gifted students will do fine on their own?” This is just one of the many myths that become barriers to properly educating millions of high-potential students. The following is a list of the most prevalent myths in gifted education, accompanied by evidence rebutting each of them.

Commentary
3.23.2016
Advanced Education

Challenges to the pursuit of equity in excellence

A recent report showing low levels of participation by black, Hispanic, and low-income students in the gifted and talented programs of Montgomery County underscores the significant challenges befo

Commentary
3.10.2016
Advanced Education

One size may fit most, but certainly not the gifted and talented

Last fall, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published a working paper by researchers Thomas S. Dee and Hans Henrik Sieversten titled The Gift of Time? School Starting Age and Mental Health. The well-developed study quantifies the effects of predicating enrollment in formal schooling on the mental health of students.

Commentary
3.2.2016
Advanced Education

Leaving talent on the table: Fixing gifted education in America

Talk is cheap.For decades, elected officials, education leaders, and others have consumed much oxygen talking about the challenges facing our nation from countries doing a much better job developing their academic talent.Despite this the reality is that we have largely failed to address this concern as many of our most talented children are being overlooked and uncultivated.

Undefined
9.30.2015
Advanced Education

The "Genius" edition

A suburban college readiness gap, rethinking the high school graduation age, fracking’s effect on male dropout rates, and racial density in high schools.

Commentary
2.23.2015
Advanced Education, Curriculum & Instruction

NEW from Fordham: Common Core and America's High-Achieving Students

The Education Gadfly

While the merit and politics of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been much debated and discussed, one topic has been virtually ignored: What do the standards portend for America’s high-ability students?  In a new brief from Fordham, Jonathan Plucker, professor of education at the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education, provides guidance for districts

Commentary
11.25.2014
Advanced Education, Curriculum & Instruction

Punishing achievement in our schools

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

President Obama’s contempt for the Constitution, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s unfortunate disregard of that document, have been loudly and justly decried by critics of executive overreach. Less heralded, but equally troubling, is the mission creep of the Office for Civil Rights as it works to reshape the education world and to right whatever alleged wrongs it thinks it sees.

Commentary
1.17.2014
Advanced Education

Yes, gifted programs improve learning

Brandon L. Wright

A recent study examined whether gifted programs benefit students at the margin: those who barely “made the cut” for admission into a program and those who barely missed it.

Commentary
12.6.2013
Advanced Education, Charter Schools

Quick hits for a Friday

Checker Finn, chagrined at the lack of attention to gifted education in the U.S., has decided to study what other nations do.