What an excellent article! Thanks for sharing.
Acceleration is the placement of students in subjects ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum.
To provide clarity and not make acceleration seem arbitrary, if I were the author I might change this one sentence to read:
Acceleration is the placement of students in subjects ahead of where they would be in the regular school curriculum based upon chronological age alone, when the student's readiness and achievement appear to be beyond the regular curriculum and more closely match the advanced curriculum. Favorite snippets from the article include the suggested practices to grow strong and self-reliant children, among them:
vital skills, provided by open-ended and imaginative play
and
only one person in life who is truly worth besting — themselves
P.S. Thank you for your
tangential sally into foodie territory. It makes me want to head to
the forest primeval for some chips with my CHIP. I believe the DC would find that nurturing.
