Sentences with phrase «academically talented children»

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Her latest book, Teach Your Children Well, also a New York Times bestseller, tackles our current narrow definition of success — how it unnecessarily stresses academically talented kids and marginalizes many more whose talents and interests are less amenable to measurement.

Her book, Teach Your Children Well, outlines how our current narrow definition of success unnecessarily stresses academically talented kids and marginalizes many more whose talents and interests are less amenable to measurement.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

It is 8:30 a.m. at De La Salle Academy, a private school in Manhattan for academically talented poor children, and classical music is humming through a boom box that harks back to the 1980s.

Center for the Academically Talented Youth Children of Tomorrow The Connie Belin and Jacquline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (University of Iowa) http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.