Earlier this year, she said she would like to see neighborhood schools “provide gifted practices to all students.”Well, research supports that.
I have no idea why such a statement could possibly be seen as "controversial" in any way, quite honestly.
Beyond that, I agree with Dude's assessment of this-- NYT and NY itself are likely to be not exactly representative in a host of ways.
Well, maybe this microcosm of education is
more of what the rest of us see in flashes or particular zip codes-- possible, that.
This kind of debate is a regular thing around here, as well-- though we seem to always wind up on the egalitarian "gifted for ALL the kids, nothing 'special' for those who already 'have' so much..." side of things.
Parents here just want the
label. My cynical solution to this is that we should hand out gold stars and bumper stickers to all of the
parents wanting them, and call
actual gifted education something less socially desirable.
