I can’t believe we’re still talking about academic acceleration and gifted children. Quite frankly, it makes me sad… and angry… and then sad once more. It breaks my heart to think of all those kids who spend countless hours in classrooms all over our country waiting to learn. Year after year, these children sit and wait…
Academic Acceleration
Education can be such a funny little world. For example, we have all this research (you can read more here, here, and here) suggesting that retention is not all it’s cracked up to be. This is not new information and yet our schools retain kids all the time. At the same time, we have all this research…
