What I find interesting is it is targeting lower income, high risk groups which I applaud
Still think it is all about IQ? Hard work and motivation are more important than anything else. High expectations set the tone.
In such a school, a GT kid will thrive like no other.
The idea should always have been to develop a flexible system of public education that would allow all � or nearly all � children to thrive. One of the things Bard has shown is that kids from wildly different backgrounds � including large numbers of immigrant children � can thrive in an educational environment that is much more intellectually demanding than your typical high school.
Imagine that. Everything that is old is new again.
