Sally Reis on Gifted Education

tokenadult
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:12:48 +0000

I’m sorry you took that as patronizing, which it was not intended to be. The frequencies are incorrect, and anyway refer to a test that is not a currently normed test. I agree that gifted children are rare–however they are defined–and that is the public policy problem, because usually mass education is designed with the masses in mind. Flexibility is a key policy issue for children who aren’t just like most children, whatever their educational situation.