Louisiana residents object to mask mandates at a state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting in August 2021.
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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.
New York City public school students attend a meeting with school board officials in January 2020.
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Teacher referrals will replace standardized testing. That could disadvantage already-underrepresented students.
Black students are underrepresented in gifted education programs.
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Anti-Black bias and lack of teacher referrals are keeping Black students out of gifted school programs, a scholar suggests.
Gifted students learn faster than their peers.
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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.