[Ohiogift] Accelerating gifted students pays dividends

[Margaret DeLacy]

Here's a companion to the article I posted earlier today.  It reports findings from the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins.

My comment: over the years I have posted many such studies. One expert said about 8 years ago that no one was even bothering to carry out these studies any longer because the benefits of acceleration were so well documented (I guess she was mistaken, given the latest crop).  I wonder how many such studies it takes to actually get districts to change their policies? Clearly, "best practices" is a foreign concept when it comes to TAG students. 

How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-Year Study of Supersmart Children:
A long-running investigation of exceptional children reveals what it takes to produce the scientists who will lead the 21st century

    By Tom Clynes, Nature magazine on September 7, 2016 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-raise-a-genius-lessons-from-a-45-year-study-of-supersmart-children/?wt.mc=SA_Facebook-Share

"The SMPY data supported the idea of accelerating fast learners by allowing them to skip school grades. In a comparison of children who bypassed a grade with a control group of similarly smart children who didn't, the grade-skippers were 60% more likely to earn doctorates or patents and more than twice as likely to get a PhD in a STEM field. "