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Intellectual self-image matters because it’s often a self-fulfilling prophecy: if you think you can’t, you won’t.
Affluent students also benefited more from gifted programs compared to students from low-income backgrounds.
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Gifted programs may have to revamp the way they operate in order to benefit all students, new research suggests.
Five-year-old Maverick Denette, left, and his six-year-old sister Peyton, centre, talk with a teacher at St. Thomas More Elementary School in Mississauga, Ont., Sept. 9, 2020.
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The approach that schools take to addressing how to get students caught up in learning they missed due to COVID-19 school closures may have a lasting impact on this generation.