<div dir="ltr"><div>All,<br><br></div>Columnist Jay Mathews recently had an interesting column in The Washington Post on the need to do better by our society's most talented and gifted students. It's good to see continued calls for support for gifted ed policies and strategies that ultimately help everyone -- students, parents, teachers and society in general.<br><div><div><br>The article is here:<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/states-need-to-do-better-by-their-most-talented-students/2016/12/11/d7618158-b059-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/states-need-to-do-better-by-their-most-talented-students/2016/12/11/d7618158-b059-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html</a><br><br></div><div>Comments by readers are (often) perceptive. The comments are at the end of the column.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Nancy Jamison<br></div></div></div>