Originally Posted by La Texican
This paper is about the general population, not gifted children. Consistent with the dropout effect found in this paper, I have read that acceleration increases the chance that gifted children will earn graduate degrees.

Do you remember where you read that? I would like to bookmark it in my "things to consider" folder.

See a previous thread "Grade skipping and STEM accomplishments"
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....skipping_and_STEM_accomp.html#Post132337 .