Re-Gifted: The Prickly Politics of the Academically Able
Writing a blog about education for the gifted pretty much guarantees a lot of attention. If you follow the party line (We're ignoring our most talented kids!), the piece will be widely distributed and praised. If you come at the issue from a different perspective--well, see comments on "Cheating the Gifted?" below.
This was not my first column on how we deal with bright kids in traditional school settings. And the arguments have not changed significantly, since I started thinking and writing about the issue, shortly after I earned a masters degree in gifted education.
Let me be clear. Yes, there are genuinely gifted students. Yes, they do have unique instructional and emotional needs-- I spent several years trying to find optimal curricular and instructional strategies to