Short-term disputes are really symptoms of deeper divisions in the US over who deserves academic opportunity, and how to present the nation’s history.
Teacher referrals will replace standardized testing. That could disadvantage already-underrepresented students.
Anti-Black bias and lack of teacher referrals are keeping Black students out of gifted school programs, a scholar suggests.
Gifted students have the potential to be our future Einsteins. But they will only do this if we support them to learn in an appropriate way.