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What happened when one of the largest school districts in the country started getting serious about inequality among its gifted kids
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GIFTED students will be fast-tracked and thousands more “high potential” children targeted for advanced lessons under a talent drive aimed at lifting ­results in the state’s classrooms.
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Understanding how to meet and advocate for a gifted student’s academic needs can be daunting, but when that student also has a disability it can become much more challenging for
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Closing the iconic School of the Air and cutting all funding to a farm school for special needs children was a strange way for the Labor Government to end the year.
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The Frances Karnes Center for Gifted Studies at The University of Southern Mississippi will hold its Parenting Gifted Children Workshop Series Jan. 27, Feb. 3 and Feb. 10. The free workshops are from 10-11 a.m. in room 204 of the J.B. George Building on the Hattiesburg campus.
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New research examines future teachers' comfort with and sensitivity toward cultural diversity issues in the classroom.
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Emotions are running high on all sides and likely, there's no perfect solution for all students.
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Miami unapologetically uses two standards to identify gifted students — one for low-income kids and English-learners, another for everyone else. As a result, its advanced-learning classrooms roughly mirror the district’s overall makeup. Washington educators are taking note.
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Children as young as two are being put in academic sets to prepare them for tests, a new report shows. Research by leading academics has found that children in some nurseries are being divided by...
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Tanmay Bakshi wishes and works towards changing the lives of those who are living with disabilities; those who are living, yet NOT living as we are, and thos...
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Gifted children who are not challenged can quickly grow bored with school, but a hidden fear of failure can lead to far greater problems
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In sixth grade, I sat down with the rest of my class to take a standardized test. I was confused: it asked me about shapes and patterns instead of...
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Pittsburgh CAPA student Londyn Davis wants to be a pediatrician. She loves helping people, loves the medical field, and “really loves the environment of a hospital.” Talk about getting a firsthand …
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You are not imagining how hard it is to raise and educate a gifted learner, parents. #gtchat.

Parenting is already a journey full of ups and downs, but gifted children do not always feel like a “gift” in terms of ease of raising them.
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