Not exact matches
Based on my experience and research ~ I have to confidently say that while there is no one perfect system ~ no holy grail so to speak of
gifted delivery models ~ I would recommend some combination of using a
separate classroom or pull - out
program with...
LA School Report took the district's analysis and
separated the 44 magnet
programs or schools where students have to meet minimum academic requirements, known as
gifted or highly
gifted magnets.
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.
If creating a
separate school is not an option, other solutions could include expanding the number of
gifted - and - talented classrooms in the many communities where demand already dwarfs supply and offering more after - school, weekend, and summer
programs.
Putting
gifted students into
separate programs is a tricky business politically, but the country's 3.7 million teachers can not all be expected to become expert practitioners of differentiated instruction.
Even school districts that offer special,
separate programs for
gifted students can not entirely counteract these forces.
There is a
separate issue of how to help the unmotivated students — but I'd argue that the proper perspective for looking at the charter schools is to compare them to the
gifted programs, not to see them as a panacea for our society's ills.