What it means to teach gifted learners well

Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by dv_dt on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:01PM (#30004413)

California used to have a better funded GATE (gifted and talented education) program - like maybe in the 70’s - but like much infrastructural social investment in America - it has undergone long term atrophy of decades.

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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by gnicholas on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:40PM (#30004732)

I don't think it's decades of atrophy. In 2014 the state simply got rid of the GATE requirement. Districts abandoned their programs in droves after that. It was much more binary than a decades-long decay.

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Re:What it means to teach gifted learners well by dv_dt on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:52PM (#30004828)

I had gate identified kids before that and at that time, the gate identification was still working, but any actual programs had atrophied to one day supplemental activities once or twice a year. Maybe a decade before that, there were entire classes of gate identified kids being taught by full time teachers.

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