Articles from the popular press on issues related to academic excellence
and achievement
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The gifted express now leaving on track 1, Education Week, January 23, 2008 - An argument for meeting the needs of all students, realizing that not everyone should be traveling at the same speed.
NCLB Seen as Curbing Low, High Achievers’ Gains, Education Week, July 16, 2007 - " A new study of Chicago students suggests that the federal No Child Left Behind Act may indeed be leaving behind students at the far ends of the academic ability spectrum—the least able students and those who are gifted."
Law lacks direction for gifted students, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 28, 2007 - "Programs for gifted and talented students vary so widely that parents and educators fear the brightest are left behind"
Classroom prospects dim for the best and the brightest, The Boston Globe, May 24, 2007 - "Massachusetts is one of only 11 states that does not mandate specific programs for the gifted, according to the Davis Institute for Talent Development, and in a spring that has seen many local school districts tightening their belts, programs for academically advanced students are being treated as dispensable."
Einsteins need to be nurtured, Scottsman, May 4, 2007 - Opinion piece by Dr. Stephen Tommis, director of the NAGC, on the ocassion of the UK's first Gifted and Talented Awareness Day.
Subtracting a 'gifted' gap in math education. Christian Science Monitor, April 5, 2007 - Project M3: Mentoring Mathematical Minds steers often-overlooked students from low income and minority backgrounds into advanced math classes.
The
Children Neglected by No Child Left Behind, Duke University press
release, February 1, 2007 - " ... gifted and talented students
struggle because they sit in our classrooms and wait. They wait for
rigorous curriculum. They wait for opportunities to be challenged.
...And, as they wait, these students lose interest in their passions,
become frustrated and unmotivated from the lack of challenge their
school curricula provides them. As a result, they become our lost
talent."
Schools
seek new ways to find gifted kids, Stockton Record, January, 22,
2007 - San Joaquin County school districts are expanding their evaluation
methods to qualify larger, more-diverse groups of children for gifted
education.
Educators
target inbalances in Nashua's gifted and talented program, Nashua
Telegraph, January 28, 2007 - Hispanic students and students from
low-income families are falling under the radar when it comes to being
identified for the school districts gifted and talented program.
Why
AP Matters Newsweek, May 8 2006 - "Large studies in Texas
and California done over the past two years indicate that good grades
on AP tests significantly increase chances of earning college degrees."
America's
best high schools; the complete list, Newsweek, May 8, 2006 -
as you look at the list, you'll see that you can have very successful
schools even with a large population of students receiving free and
reduced lunch. Madison Memorial ranks 925.
IB
+ IQ = Success, Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter, February 9, 2006
- news article about the impelentation of an International Baccalaureate
Diploma Programme at Lincoln High School in Manitowoc.
Advanced
classes open doors for minorities, Green Bay Post Gazette, February
7, 2006 - What one district is doing to increase participation of
minority students in advanced placement classes
Stupid
in America, ABC News, January 13, 2006 - a 20/20 report on how
our schools fail to educate students, as well as a look at some schools
that succeed.
The
Gap According to Black: Simpson Street Free Press, January 2006
- For many local kids, the academic achievement gap is very personal
Parents want schools to
offer more advanced programming, Associated Press, December 2,
2005 - Story on Todd Palmer's petition to DPI asking that they establish
benchmarks that districts in the state must meet for the delivery
of services to talented and gifted students.
How
to Build a Better High School, Newsweek, May, 16, 2005 - The measure
is controversial, but students who take AP examseven if they
don't do wellare better prepared than those who don't.
The
top 100 best high schools in America, Newsweek, May 16, 2005 -
as you look at the list, you'll see that you can have very successful
schools even with a large population of students receiving free and
reduced lunch.
Gifted Minority Student Left Behind,
Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 8, 2000 - an article that details
some of the factors that play a role in the underrepresentation of
minority students in gifted and talented programing.
Disadvantaging the advantaged,
Forbes, Nov. 21, 1994 - Criticizes the lack of funding for educating
gifted children and argues that it does not make sense for the government
to spend 70 percent of federal money on the disadvantaged and the
handicapped.