I dislike titles that exaggerate. The education of the gifted in the U.S. ought to improve, but there is no "war" against them. "The Neglect of Our Nation's Brightest Young Minds" would be a better subtitle.
The author/publisher are not
literally asserting that there are tanks rolling down the streets. It's just a
metaphor.
And yes there most definitely a war against ability tracking in the USA, even though it is essentially free.
If you have 240 students in a grade, and money for 6 teachers, so you'll have 6 classes of 40, it costs esssentially nothing to group by ability, and teach each class at the right level, which would lead to enormous improvements in educational outcomes. But this generally does not happen in America, essentially because war has been declared on the practice.
