Word: giftedness
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DURHAM, N.C.—One of my all-time favorite Far Side cartoons depicts a student at Midvale School for the Gifted trying to open a door labeled “pull” by pushing as hard as he can. The joke is simple, straight to the point...
Despite listing these off-the-wall examples of “gifted” behavior, don’t get me wrong. Although I certainly have been shocked and befuddled by numerous inexplicable acts of gifted lunacy and tomfoolery over the past few weeks, I have nothing but the utmost...
But warm and fuzzy editorial comments aside, the experience of observing these children interact with one another has forced me to think more seriously about some central questions about gifted education I had previously taken for granted. Since the inception of the Binet intelligence test—the precursor of...
Critics routinely assail these programs not only for draining schools’ resources, but more importantly, for perpetuating an arrogant culture of elitism that harms the community and the children on both sides of the “gifted” label. But is segregating gifted children as bad an...
On the point of breeding elitism, it is granted that there exists a danger of giving gifted children a false sense of societal superiority at the expense of regular students. However, it seems far more inimical for a gifted child to be restrained by a slower academic pace and for...