How Do Schools Find Gifted Students? Some Survey Results
How Do Schools Find Gifted Students? Some Survey Results
Students from low-income homes, and black, Latino, and Native American children are often underrepresented in school gifted education programs, according to a nationwide survey of the people who staff those programs. The survey by the Education Week Research Center also found that the problem is particularly acute in large school districts and those in urban areas. Despite those imbalances, more than half of the 800 respondents said they “completely agree” or “partially agree” that their district programs are netting all or almost all of the students who need to be in them.
See the full results: Gifted Education: Results of a National Survey
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Source: Education Week Research Center
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A version of this article appeared in the November 27, 2019 edition of Education Week as Gifted Education: Results of a National Survey