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Word: edgebrook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1979-1979
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...twelve-week program for gifted children; later, he was admitted. "But it was mostly arts and crafts with a few field trips run by a volunteer," says his father. "There was not a trained teacher for the gifted." Said Daniel DeRoche, Tommy's principal at the Edgebrook Elementary School: "He is the kind of child a teacher dreams of having once in a lifetime. But now that we have him, we don't know what to do with him." The Irwins received permission to enroll Tommy, now a fifth-grader, in a Spanish class at McHenry High School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was the Kid Too Smart to Learn? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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