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Twice Exceptional
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April has recently been renamed from Autism Awareness Month to Autism Acceptance Month. Originally Posted By: NationalDayToday.com, timeline, 2021Awareness to Acceptance On March 4, the Autism Society of America officially announces the shift in term
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: KaiIt seems like the solution to this problem is to allow gifted kids to go at a faster pace starting in kindergarten... All children need appropriate academic challenge and intellectual peers. For typical students, this may be
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: indigoAs a firm believer in equal opportunities, not equal outcomes: - the test being given for "skip" should be the same end-of-year test given for the grade level, - the score allowing one to "skip" should be the same score
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Originally Posted By: KaiIt seems like the solution to this problem is to allow gifted kids to go at a faster pace starting in kindergarten. The problem with this idea is that it is pretty easy to get a gifted kid through elementary math by the time
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Parenting and Advocacy
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It seems like the solution to this problem is to allow gifted kids to go at a faster pace starting in kindergarten. The problem with this idea is that it is pretty easy to get a gifted kid through elementary math by the time they are in fourth or fi
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Parenting and Advocacy
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FWIW, a quick look at the sample test item posted by the district leads back to this UC Berkeley project on performance assessments aligned to Common Core math standards, and their menu of end-of-course assessments: https://www.map.mathshell.org/tes
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Parenting and Advocacy
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As a firm believer in equal opportunities, not equal outcomes: - the test being given for "skip" should be the same end-of-year test given for the grade level, - the score allowing one to "skip" should be the same score allowing one to "pass" to th
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Parenting and Advocacy
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It certainly makes sense to identify gaps prior to placement above the level of one's formal instruction history, but given the existence of publisher-provided placement tests in most math curricula, it would likely be more efficient to use those ins
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Parenting and Advocacy
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I am a keen supporter of maths acceleration and curriculum compaction, but respectfully point out that understanding maths requires solid foundations, so thorough assessments for gaps in knowledge & skills before grade skips is appropriate. Whilst th
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Appalling. As someone intent on minimizing performance gaps, I am puzzled as to why educators (where you are, where I am, and elsewhere) think that cutting down tall poppies is effective or merited, and how the public can buy into this. How about
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Parenting and Advocacy
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Coming soon to a school district near you. (San Francisco Unified School District allows no acceleration whatsover in middle school). ----- Parents: Math test doesn’t add up BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Monday, April 19, 2021 Palo
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General Discussion
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I'll answer my own questions separately. Quote:1/ What share of liberal arts university grads actually meet these criteria? That would speak to the effectiveness of the current system of general PSE education. From personal experience, at the under
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General Discussion
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"I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitu
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General Discussion
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aeh makes an excellent point about the importance of defining what constitutes "an educated citizen". As a secondary consideration, we then also have to overlay the lens of rewards to the individual vs rewards to society, if we want to create an ac
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General Discussion
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I am, on this topic as on many, ambivalent. I work in a very specialist career-oriented educational institution which sends many learners on to technical institutes rather than liberal arts colleges (although some to the latter as well), and see the
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Recommended Resources
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Just-for-Fun Geography: To learn geographic coordinates of latitude and longitude, for any given city, see the website Geodatos - https://www.geodatos.net/en/ To learn what point is opposite from a given location (a straight line through the center
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General Discussion
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And do you know the breakdown of majors 40 years ago? I don’t.... but I still argue that being roundly educated makes one more valuable. I didn’t say it’s easy- yes competition is fierce. If you don’t major in science, you need to be able to sho
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And this doesn't address engineers. They don't have a choice in what they take, since this is a bachelor degree. Though I did have an elective my first year. And as for jack of all trades and soft skills, in the era of online job hunting and AI ty
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I just want to say that this was 40 years ago. I just looked up the stats for 2019. And these are the breakdown of the 21000 approx that got into medical school. The most common majors were: Biological sciences—11,843 total matriculants. Physic
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Originally Posted By: cricket3, 2 posts... medical school applicants who majored in humanities ... are much in demand, and have been for years. None of these things are mutually exclusive, though the study of diverse and less directly profitable subj
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Originally Posted By: WrenOriginally Posted By: indigoOriginally Posted By: acgoldisA pity. I know humanities graduates tend to have a lot of soft skills which can be in demand. They can also be good jacks of all trades. A humanities education may
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Originally Posted By: cricket3Apologies- it probably stems from knowing a few surgeons (and no, they are not peasants, but many of them seem to suffer from a deficit in humanities education). No worries, my friend!
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General Discussion
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Apologies- it probably stems from knowing a few surgeons (and no, they are not peasants, but many of them seem to suffer from a deficit in humanities education).
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General Discussion
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Originally Posted By: cricket3Originally Posted By: aquinas And to wren's point, if job specific training is "peasant" work, then I guess I'll be entrusting my life to a lowly peasant should I ever need a coronary bypass... *grin* With all due re
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General Discussion
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Originally Posted By: aquinas And to wren's point, if job specific training is "peasant" work, then I guess I'll be entrusting my life to a lowly peasant should I ever need a coronary bypass... *grin* With all due respect, medical school applican
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