Sentences with phrase «educational programs for gifted students»

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Despite all the emphasis on reading programs and encouraging students to read, many children, especially minority students, still do not read with a high level of comprehension and fluency, independently, or for fun, according to Dr. Sally M. Reis, a professor and the department head of the educational psychology department at the University of Connecticut where she also serves as principal investigator of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented.

Yet, much of that work depends on a simple, often unstated, assumption: that the short list of control variables captured in educational data systems — prior achievement, student demographics, English language learner status, eligibility for federally subsidized meals or programs for gifted and special education students — include the relevant factors by which students are sorted to teachers and schools.

Uniquely Gifted This site is devoted to providing resources and meeting the needs of twice - exceptional students — those with special needs such as learning disabilities, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, etc. http://www.uniquelygifted.org National Center for Learning Disabilities NCLD provides essential information to parents, professionals and individuals with learning disabilities, promotes research and programs to foster effective learning, and advocates for policies to protect and strengthen educational rights and opportunities.

The phrase «above grade level» by itself is meaningless in terms of planning appropriate gifted educational programming for a student.

Gifted programs — Programs that provide advanced educational opportunities including accelerated promotion through grades and classes and an enriched curriculum for students who are endowed with a high degree of academic programs — Programs that provide advanced educational opportunities including accelerated promotion through grades and classes and an enriched curriculum for students who are endowed with a high degree of academic Programs that provide advanced educational opportunities including accelerated promotion through grades and classes and an enriched curriculum for students who are endowed with a high degree of academic ability.

Richmond posits that part of the explanation for the growth in the non-instructional staff lies in a slew of legislation expanding students» education rights: the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children's Act (now known as the Individual with Disabilities Act) expanding educational access for children with disabilities; Title IX barring sex - based discrimination in educational programs; the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 establishing federal policy for bilingual education; and the Gifted and Talented Children's Education Act of 1978.

Programs, curricula, and services for gifted and talented youth can best meet their needs, promote their achievements in life, and contribute to the enhancement of our society when schools identify students» specific talent strengths and focus educational services on these talents.

For individual gifted students, books can be part of the educational program if an adult (parent, teacher, librarian, or other mentor) offers reading guidance, discussing what the student has read and making suggestions for related reading — always keeping in mind the student's interests, reading ability, and reading backgrouFor individual gifted students, books can be part of the educational program if an adult (parent, teacher, librarian, or other mentor) offers reading guidance, discussing what the student has read and making suggestions for related reading — always keeping in mind the student's interests, reading ability, and reading backgroufor related reading — always keeping in mind the student's interests, reading ability, and reading background.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

For individual gifted students, books can be part of the educational program if an adult (parent, teacher, librarian, or other mentor) offers reading guidance, discussing what the student has read and making suggestions for related reading — keeping in mind the student's interests, reading ability, and reading backgrouFor individual gifted students, books can be part of the educational program if an adult (parent, teacher, librarian, or other mentor) offers reading guidance, discussing what the student has read and making suggestions for related reading — keeping in mind the student's interests, reading ability, and reading backgroufor related reading — keeping in mind the student's interests, reading ability, and reading background.