All children benefit from high expectations (research seems to back that children who are expected to suceed do better than those expected to fail)
The corollary seems to be that few expect gifted children to succeed; Commonly the media refers to alleged criminal suspects as "gifted".
Rather than identifying innately gifted individuals and supporting their intellectual growth so it may continue in a positive trajectory, equipping these kids with new things to think about and a sense of trust in their fellow humanity... the world has developed a system predicated on recognizing wealth-driven achievement, hot-housing, and quotas... often excluding the very children we ostensibly set out to serve.
In schools, many gifted children receive only the "challenge" of waiting for other students, having their own thoughts and questions ignored, being sandbagged if their minds may wander, being used as free tutors for slower classmates. Many innately gifted pupils do not receive an academic challenge worthy of their intellect, but rather a steady flow of teacher admonitions, and choices to undertake higher level academic work
in social isolation vs slogging through work they have already mastered while having some semblance of inclusion with the cohort.
While Common Core may help set a standard for a performance floor, it does not address removing the ceiling. The establishment of further testing, reporting, and regulatory systems designed to ensure conformity of educational outcomes among pupils of diverse capabilities may further harm the educational opportunities for innately gifted kids.
This topic seems strongly related to the recent threads "Number sense in infancy predicts math ability" and "How to Hothouse Your Kid".
