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Dickensian tales like Sidis' may help explain why most educators mistrust the whole idea of grade skipping. We catch a whiff of élitism around parents who want their kid to leapfrog others. What's called radical acceleration--finishing high school at 15 or younger--is viewed with particular skepticism, since one suspects today's striving parents may be no less aggressive in pursuit of their child's glory than Boris Sidis was. Judith Roseberry, president of the California Association for the Gifted, says several couples a year approach her seeking to have their fetus identified as gifted. "They...
...always been clear. Older definitions, for instance, wrongly exclude the artistically talented. But most experts define the term as the top 3% to 5% of scorers on IQ and other standardized tests. For the smartest of these kids, those who quickly overpower schoolwork that flummoxes peers, skipping a grade isn't about showing off. Rather, according to a new report from the University of Iowa, it can mean the difference between staying in school and dropping out from sheer tedium. "If the work is not challenging for these high-ability kids, they will become invisible," says the lead author...
...incoming student-athletes with low AIs are more likely to underachieve than their classmates. He points out that the AI has serious inherent flaws, as it limits its judgment of the competency of a student to SAT I and SAT II test scores as well as class rank or grade point average. Through several anecdotal examples—the primary form of evidence that Lincoln relies on in the work—he shows that AI is a poor indicator of one’s expected performance in college...
...Taejon. But last week, a Geneva-based diplomatic source disclosed that senior scientists were also involved. The government maintains that the small amount of uranium produced was extremely weak; diplomats close to the investigation tell TIME South Korea has admitted to the IAEA it was of near weapons-grade potency. With regard to the plutonium production in 1982, the government said the misreporting to the IAEA in 1983 was a "mistake," that the final report on the experiment was lost and the leader of the group had died. Therefore, the government said, it had no record of how much plutonium...
...time they get to middle school or high school or have such a low reading level that they're academically unsuccessful. The amazing thing about it is, because they have a larger vocabulary, because they've lived longer, they can be taught to read or move up several grade levels pretty quickly...