Common methods for identifying gifted students often miss students from lower-income families who should qualify for gifted programs.
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America’s low-income but high-achieving kids fail to find the necessary resources, and consequently fall behind. This has huge implications for innovation as well as the GDP.
Two students – one black and one white – with the same math and reading achievement could have very different likelihoods of being identified as gifted.
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Associate Professor of Education Policy and Psychology and 21st Century Chair, University of Arkansas
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Professor of Education, University of California, Berkeley
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