Challenging the Gifted: Nuclear Chemistry and Sartre Draw the Best and Brightest to Reno

Autor/in	Kronholz, June
Titel	Challenging the Gifted: Nuclear Chemistry and Sartre Draw the Best and Brightest to Reno
Quelle	In: Education Next, 11 (2011) 2, S.32-38 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Age; Gifted; Special Education; Intelligence Quotient; Public Schools; Teaching Methods; Age Groups; Academically Gifted; Academic Ability; Academic Achievement; Nevada; National Assessment of Educational Progress + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alter; Lebensalter; Begabter, Hoch Begabter; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Intelligenzquotient; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Age grop; Altersgruppe; Schulleistung
Abstract	What is a school to do with children who are intellectually years ahead of their age group, their textbooks, the curriculum, and usually their teachers? When the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) surveyed states in 2008 about what they provide in the way of gifted education, it found the answer to be "not much." At least a dozen states do not let children start kindergarten early, even if they are already reading "The Aeneid." Two states bar a middle schooler from taking high-school classes. At least 30 states allow only those in 11th and 12th grade to also enroll in college classes. And almost no one will waive mandatory-attendance laws for the 15-year-old who has gotten everything she can out of her high school and itches to move on. "That's a mistreatment of students," says Bob Davidson who, with his wife, Jan, founded, developed, and then sold the company that marketed the hugely successful Math Blaster and Reading Blaster computer software. So, in 2006, the Davidsons started a public school like no other on the University of Nevada campus. The Davidson Academy accepts only youngsters with an IQ of 145 or higher. That puts the 123 kids enrolled in the school in the 99.9th percentile of their age group. Or as Bob Davidson says, "The likely people to make the big discoveries" in the next generation. In this article, the author presents a brief profile of the Davidsons and discusses how they established the Davidson Academy. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10