[Ohiogift] Identifying a more diverse TAG population, fwd.

[Margaret DeLacy]

Friends:

Below is a link to and excerpt from a story that appeared in Education Week this week:



Schools Seek to Diversify Gifted, Honors Classes by Sarah D. Sparks for Education Week:


...Administrators found students who had been identified for gifted programs or participated in accelerated course work in elementary school often lost their momentum in middle school, particularly if they were from low-income or minority families....

That's not uncommon. Achievement gaps between high-performing black and white students actually grew faster than the gaps between low-achieving black and white students. A study from the University of California, Los Angeles, for example, examined how gaps in math and reading performance changed from kindergarten to 5th grade. The gaps between black and white students who performed well at an early age grew twice as fast as the gaps between their low-performing peers....

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/10/28/schools-seek-to-diversify-gifted-honors-classes.html?cmp=eml-enl-eu-news1

Margaret