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Diminishing marginal returns for the average stock of education is what we’re seeing. In large part, this is because the proportion of what Val calls normal research has grown as a share of the total pool of research conducted. IOW, a lot of tinkerin
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Twice Exceptional
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Thank you so much! This couldn't have come a a better time for our family. Very helpful!
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Twice Exceptional
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The Davidson Institute's latest guidebook, Twice-Exceptionality: A Resource Guide for Parents is meant to act as a launch pad for parents to learn more about twice-exceptionality, the process of identification and assessment, and how to support child
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The July Davidson eNews-Update was sent out yesterday. Includes gifted news, state legislative updates, Davidson news, web resources and more! http://news.ditd.org/July_18/eNews_July18_web.html
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Middle School
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Originally Posted By: BostonianOriginally Posted By: indigo6) Because the article mentions "low-income immigrant neighborhoods," how many of these residents are in NYC legally, how many are undocumented/illegal/overstayed (therefore have not paid to
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Middle School
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Originally Posted By: indigo6) Because the article mentions "low-income immigrant neighborhoods," how many of these residents are in NYC legally, how many are undocumented/illegal/overstayed (therefore have not paid to support the public system which
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Originally Posted By: Brooklyn Parents Have Mixed Feelings on School Admissions Proposalnot a direct quote... excerpts somewhat rearranged, for clarity and direct comparison: Current NYC District 15 Middle School Admissions: Now, students rank the
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Python
by Bostonian
@ Yesterday at 04:42 AM
This article from the Economist may interest parents wondering what programming language their children should learn. My 11-year-old daughter has been doing the MIT edX class Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python. I have hel
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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pm'd you
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Middle School
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So a special education teacher thinks no-one else should get education aimed to meet their needs? Or are they doing away with special education as well? In that case it would be like NZ. We have a system that only meets the needs of extrovert, compl
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Originally Posted By: WSJ pieceDigital innovation is recombinant in nature, based on building blocks and platforms. In this view, “the true work of innovation is not coming up with something big and new, but instead recombining things that already ex
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Middle School
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As children get older, their absolute mental ages and academic preparation diverge (as my children in middle school have noticed). Maybe the standard deviation of mental age is about 1 year at age 6 and 2 years by age 12. A consequence of this is tha
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The Misallocation of International Math Talent by Alex Tabarrok Marginal Revolution blog July 18, 2018 Wealthier countries allocate a greater proportion of their workers to science and engineering, fields which produce ideas that often benefit ev
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Adult
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"Coaching" seems to be another good search term.
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Adult
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Apparently "I like to learn and would learn whatever my organization thinks is most helpful" is not a development plan that my supervisor can work with. What ended up in the review is a list of projects I said I was going to work on, and a note that
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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Thanks aeh for this information. I got an opportunity to attend Dr. Silverman's session on the expanded indices, last month. My DS was tested with WISC-V too, but I think the psychologist did not administer all of the tests in each section. In this c
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Thanks for this Indigo.
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Adult
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Mentoring!!!! My supervisors are forever asking me to train and mentor new hires, my coworkers, interns or students, but when I start talking about my own professional development, they can't end the conversation fast enough. Maybe they're worried
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Originally Posted By: MsFriz I do wonder though, if it isn’t the same people who fell through the cracks as gifted kids who struggle with underemployment and underachievement as adults. If so, it seems it would be especially unkind to simply kick the
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Adult
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Originally Posted By: mckinley I guess I just need to learn how to be in the moment more often. On top of not being challenged, at every job I’ve had, I’ve had hours upon hours of idle time in my work week, so staying in the moment is slow death.
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Originally Posted By: Alannc44 The biggest difference I can see is that as an adult, I can quit my job and move somewhere. A kid has to settle in where ever his parents put her/him Because that was done to me repeatedly as a kid (parent moves famil
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Twice Exceptional
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You are very kind to respond. I great appreciate it.
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General Discussion
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DS12 took the SAT exam at 6th grade and got 720(verbal)+710(Math)/1430. Any parents have experience for CTY's SET program? What's the benefit be a SET member? Thank you!
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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He is correct. The highest possible score is the same regardless of which grade the child took the test in. However, the 2-5 test does create some "ceiling effect" because it starts students at lower level questions and, as such, requires
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Adult
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Originally Posted By: MsFriz... but in my experience, that only makes my work dissatisfaction that much more intense. It makes my time at work feel that much more pointless and ridiculous. Although addressing the solutions for boredom wasn't my ori
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