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: BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog

Gifted students need support too

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BoardBuzz was browsing through the Center for Public Education's website (it's one of our favorites) and came across the headline Are Gifted Students Getting Left Out. The headline came from an L.A. Times article on the Center's News Across the Nation page, which pools important educational articles from news organizations from around the country. BoardBuzz highly recommends you check it out regularly. The article put the spotlight on 15 year-old Latino high school junior Dalton Sargent from Altadena, California. Dalton is so bright that he is considered Gifted and Talented -- but like many Gifted and Talented students, he struggles through school while scoring high on most standardized tests. His struggles are not due to a lack of intelligence, far from it, but from a lack of motivation. He finds most of his classes unchallenging. Many school districts provide programs to better support gifted students by tailoring instruction to their unique needs. However, there are no federal programs to help students like Dalton and many cash-strapped states do not provide the financial support necessary for districts to meet the needs of all their gifted students. In this era of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that focuses on students with low test scores, many students like Dalton fall through the gaps by scoring high on their state tests while struggling with their everyday course work. BoardBuzz was shocked to see that some studies have shown that up to 20 percent of gifted students eventually drop out of high school. If we are really to leave no child behind, districts need the support to meet the needs of all their students, including the gifted ones. For more articles on important educational issues of the day check out the Center for Public Education's News Across the Nation.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on May 15, 2008 (boomark / email).