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Since it was signed in 2002, the No Child Left Behind law has focused attention on the kids who can't keep up, but research shows that gifted kids are also at risk. In a 2000 study for Gifted Child Quarterly, Joseph Renzulli and Sunghee Park found that 5% of the 3,520 gifted students they followed dropped out after eighth grade. Astonishingly, that's almost as high as the 5.2% of nongifted kids who dropped out. Untold numbers of other highly intelligent kids stay in school but tune out. "When we ask exceptional children about their main obstacle, they...
Columbia’s Associate Vice President for Public Affairs Virgil Renzulli said Stone was brought in to make the most of this new structure in presenting a unified face...
...When he came the various departments were not nearly as strategically oriented, and their goals not nearly as integrated,” Renzulli said...
Emily Lloyd, Columbia’s executive vice president for administration, said that like Harvard, Columbia is expanding and encountering the space crunch of a crowded city. Renzulli described a wide spectrum of community activists, borough presidents, non-profit organizations and neighborhood groups that Stone dealt with in the course...
...Renzulli and Lloyd said they are sad to see Stone...