Susan Goodkin and David G. Gold: In focus on proficiency, bright kids lose - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial Sacramento Bee:
"Many students scoring 'advanced' on grade-level material could progress much further with instruction geared to their needs. Instead, with teachers pressured by the No Child Left Behind Act to aim instruction at below-proficiency students, advanced learners are forced to sit through repetitive rote lessons on material they long ago mastered. Frustrated and bored, many bright students will act up, tune out and, as research shows, eventually even drop out in alarming numbers. Ignoring these students shortchanges them and California's future."
"It has been twenty-four years: How painful it is to write these words. It
never gets easier, and it never will – as I always knew and as I now see
for certain"
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Some people call sorrow that lasts more than one year “complicated grief”
or “pathological grief.” I call it the price I pay for loving an
extraordina...
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