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Having that information available for 25 years, some may say that gifted pupils ought to be better understood and therefore better served by educational systems.
Except that the passage of time, by itself, doesn't really mean anything.

Well, the passage of time means that things can get worse, stay the same, or improve. The passage of time also means that all three things can happen at once.
Sage observation. smile The passage of time with information available does indeed mean that things can get worse if powers-that-be have absorbed decades of information on how to best educate and support the gifted and have utilized a strategy to apply the opposite techniques in attempt to stymy the development of the gifted, with a goal of creating statistically uniform achievement among all students.