The Washington Post – Jay Mathews
“We have no idea how many gifted children are in the United States. We don’t know whether special handling of brilliant youths helps them. Spending a lot of tax dollars on such kids is not popular. I learned this reading the best book on gifted education I have ever encountered, “Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students,” by Chester E. Finn Jr. and Brandon L. Wright. You would think, from the authors’ refreshingly honest description of how little we know about giftedness, that they would recommend we move on to programs with better data and more support, such as ensuring that every fourth-grader can read.”(more)