Oh, and let's not forget the emphasis in schools with NCLB of "lowering the academic achievement gap". (never heard that about sports achievement). If you are serving mainly high-income kids (which tend to be the ones who are identified due to higher parent involvement), it would be a barrier to federal goals. But I'm still hopeful that NCLB will become more gifted friendly
And I think efforts like Question's could contribute to that end. We could use something to change America's reputation of being academically inferior to other countries.
