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However a teacher interacts or teachers a pupil, that pupil will then go on to interact and teach others in a similar manner. It is a butterfly effect!

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Large class sizes dismantle the one-on-one learning that young students are so accustomed to after only knowing the coddling from their parents, creating machine like students.

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Last paragraph of page 191:
Traditional schooling eradicated pure thought.

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3rd paragraph on page 191:
People learn what is enjoyable to them, like traits or folk tales. Turning a topic into something entertaining can alter the course of a person's life by changing a lesson into a passion.

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1st paragraph: Teachers- let the kids LIVE and explore on their own, while simply being a guide in the right direction.

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15. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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15. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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"Technology can give every student a chance to develop great talent. Both inside and outside the classroom, powerful tools exist that can provide every student with the advanced, personalized instruction that we know characterizes a robust education and a path to success"

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14. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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14. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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"I was young, black, and new to this country, so they stuck me in vocational track classes assuming I had neither the interest in nor the potential for college. It took a major intervention from two extraordinary educators to guide me off this predestined path, on to a top college, and eventually to Harvard for graduate school. These women tutored me, mentored me, and taught me that the only limit to my potential was how far I was willing to push myself."

His schoolteachers underestimated him through their bias or idea of what a gifted child should look like. However, he flipped the script and went on to succeed without the facilities in a gifted and talented classroom ALTHOUGH HE HAD PERSONAL TUTORS TOO.

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13. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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13. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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" For example, children labeled “gifted” early on often reach the conclusion that needing to work hard is a sign of low intelligence. They shy away from challenges, fearing that failure or struggle will expose intellectual weakness."

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12. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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12. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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Fields argues that earning exceptional education is an entry point, not a destination, and that only a small percentage of students can enjoy all that they are given.

"Unfortunately, in the current education system, exceptional ability is too often an entry point, not a destination. The onus is on parents to prove that their child has extraordinary talent before they can access the most effective learning resources"

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11. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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11. Gifted and Talented Programs Dumb Down Our Students.

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"Once a child has earned it, typically by claiming a spot in the top 10 percent in a given skill or subject area, most often based on standardized test scores, the doors to gifted and talented education programs and resources swing open. These programs offer the accelerated curricula and greater learning resources that propel a small subset of students into top colleges and elite careers.

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Students who are placed in Gifted and Talented programs are more likely to succeed and thrive in their respective careers than their peers.

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9. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted.

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9. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted.

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This is a long quote, but I feel it to be worthy of my padlet:

"Much attention has been paid to the achievement gap between minority students and underserved populations and their more affluent white peers. And, in fact, when gifted programs have been tied to the financial resources of individual districts, services for the gifted often have eluded minority students and children in lower socioeconomic districts. In recent years, however, the National Association for Gifted Children has promoted comprehensive, inclusive identification policies for gifted programs. The now-threatened Javits Grants have supported research into identification instruments and program options for these underserved populations. The loss of this funding will set back such efforts at inclusion, long sought by educators of the gifted nationwide."

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8. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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8. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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"By setting a minimum standard, and holding all students accountable for reaching that low level, a ceiling has been placed on both expectation and outcome."

LET THE POOR KIDS THRIVE

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Teachers have a lack of general educators' training in gifted education, and the pressure that is placed upon them to raise the performance of their struggling students, allows for no student to truly shine in their own way.

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"Further benefits of gifted programs have been shown to include that students who had participated in gifted programs maintained their interests over time and stayed involved in creative productive work after they finished college and graduate school"

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"...studies found that 320 gifted students identified during adolescence who received services through the secondary level pursued doctoral degrees at more than 50X the base rate expectations."

Gifted and Talented programs positively impact students' lived far outside of primary care.

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"According to one report on high-achieving students, more than 7 in 10 teachers of these students surveyed noted that their brightest students were not challenged or given a chance to “thrive” in their classrooms. "

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3. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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3. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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"Yet President John F. Kennedy, more than 40 years ago, challenged the logic of this notion when he said, "All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

Gifted and Talented Programs provide students with an

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2. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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2. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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"Our society admires and even exalts a gifted athlete like Tiger Woods, whose early precocity engaged our imaginations and encouraged parents to put golf clubs in the hands of their 3-year-olds. But children who display unusual cognitive ability challenge the sensitivities of critics, who contend that appropriately differentiated academic experiences for highly able children are somehow unfair to other children."

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1. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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1. The Unkindest Cut: Seven Stupid Arguments Against Programs for the Gifted

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"The current allocation of $11.022 million is also distributed across several university-based research centers, state departments of education, and local educational agencies."

The Javits Grants are the only funding that Gifted and Talented programs are provided at the national level.