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Wake parents complain about math placement

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.newsobserver.com (Views: 54, Clicks: 4)
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Educators in Wake County and across the state touted the new “Common Core” math curriculum introduced this school year as being more rigorous – challenging even the brightest students. But several Wake County parents of academically gifted students say the new math curriculum has fallen short of testing their children.

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Pearson’s gifted test score errors affected thousands of families

Newman sumitted ago via http://gothamschools.org (Views: 69, Clicks: 6)
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In the latest in a series of embarrassing snafus, the testing company Pearson miscalculated thousands of city students’ scores on tests to screen for giftedness. According to the Department of Education, 2,698 children who were told they did not hit the city’s threshold for gifted and talented program eligibility actually made the cut. Another 2,037 children had scores high enough to apply to citywide gifted programs, but were told they could apply only to less elite district programs.

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Pearson admits major errors in gifted and talented exam scoring

Newman sumitted ago via http://gothamschools.org (Views: 36, Clicks: 5)
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A major screwup by the testing company Pearson caused some children to be told they did not make the cut for city gifted programs when in fact they scored high enough to be admitted. (Pearson letter to parents.)

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What Does 'Gifted' Look Like?

Newman sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 84, Clicks: 26)
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Madlon Laster -- Would you call a woman gifted, thinking, "A Gucci purse? She's brilliant -- has a high-paying job!" (She could have a wealthy admirer.) You pass a street musician: "Now there is God-given talent," unless he's all thumbs and tone-deaf. Violinist Joshua Bell played in a subway once; few stopped to listen. Most rushed onward. Can we judge "gifted" by observing?

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Do schools for 'gifted' promote segregation?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 41, Clicks: 4)
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Valerie Strauss -- Connecticut is opening new schools for the "gifted" in three districts, raising questions about segregation and discrimination.

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Project Uses Famous Profiles to Identify Gifted, Creative Students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 107, Clicks: 14)
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Sarah D. Sparks -- From Mark Twain to Woody Allen, creative adults often say they were uncomfortable in school, and educators have struggled for decades to find a reliable way to identify gifted—but often quirky or rambunctious—creative students.

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Edge Cases Increase Complexity

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.byrdseed.com (Views: 43, Clicks: 5)
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Ian Byrd -- In my computer science days, we learned to watch for edge cases: extreme situations that challenge the system. How will the system handle an email address with an ‘ñ‘ in it, or an email 1,000 letters long? Did we write a program that only handles the obvious cases, or one that truly encompasses all situations? When we plan lessons for gifted students, we should look for the edge cases of the skills we’re teaching.

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To Show Or Not To Show (Work)

Kbuck sumitted ago via http://www.byrdseed.com (Views: 85, Clicks: 22)
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Ian Byrd -- Have you engaged in a “show your work” battle with a gifted math student? Have you heard this line: “If I can do it in my head, why do I have to write it out?” It might be worth it to quote an interesting study of gifted students and their teachers’ personality types by Dr. Jane Piirto. Piirto found that most teachers prefer Sensing while gifted students prefer iNtuition on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator.

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England: Ofsted chief voices fears for brightest pupils

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.bbc.co.uk (Views: 44, Clicks: 4)
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England's chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has ordered a "landmark report" into how state schools teach the most able students.

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Fairfax approves limited expansion of gifted-education program

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 49, Clicks: 5)
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The Fairfax County School Board has approved a modest expansion of the gifted-education program, creating more learning opportunities for the county’s brightest elementary and middle school students.

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A system divided: Gifted, talented and separated

nitajo sumitted ago via http://flcourier.com (Views: 53, Clicks: 5)
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At P.S. 163 on the Upper West Side, the accelerated program is mostly white and middle class, unlike the rest of the school.

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Fairfax schools propose expansion of gifted programs

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 86, Clicks: 5)
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Fairfax County school officials on Monday introduced a proposal to significantly expand programs for gifted students, a plan that already has met stiff opposition from parents and teachers. The proposal, which could affect the school lives of more than 10,000 students, would create as many as 20 new Advanced Academic Program centers for the county’s brightest students. It would, in effect, amount to a significant redistricting for the county’s gifted programs.

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Virginia: Fairfax County students take more advanced classes, score higher on the exams

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 68, Clicks: 10)
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Fairfax County students took more Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate classes this year and scored higher on the rigorous exams than the year before, according to school system data. Superintendent Jack D. Dale attributed the rise in the number of students taking the advanced classes and the higher scores to the school system’s focus on gifted education in elementary and middle schools.

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Homework torture for some gifted students

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 61, Clicks: 5)
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Jay Mathews -- The first clue Bonnie Beavers had of her daughter’s learning disability came in the second grade. The girl scored at the 99th percentile in math on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, but when her teacher divided the class into groups for math, she was not in the highest one.

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National Gifted Education Convention, Day 1

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 69, Clicks: 4)
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Tamara Fisher -- What specific changes can I make in my school or district to promote the CC for gifted students? How can these changes be accomplished? What are barriers and ways to overcome them that I see?

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