Monthly Archives: October 2007

New York City Overhauling Gifted Programs

  By Troy | October 30, 2007 - 4:36 pm | Gifted Education Leave a comment

Following Florida’s lead, New York City has proposed plans to change eligibility guidelines for Gifted programs in the city’s schools. Right now, standards vary among schools. But the chancellor of schools, Joel Klein, has proposed a standard to be by all schools in evaluating Gifted students. All students who qualify would be guaranteed a spot in their school’s Gifted program. However, the qualifications would be substantially higher. The proposal would only admit those students who scored in the 95th percentile or higher on two national tests into Gifted programs.

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Are Gifted Children also Special Needs Children?

  By Troy | October 25, 2007 - 12:00 pm | Special Needs 2 Comments

Today, on his blog over at Scienceblogs, Prof. Chad Orzel began a discussion about whether or not gifted children should be grouped with non-gifted “special needs” students in order to get funding for gifted programs. He argues that…

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Gifted Education Funding Changes in Florida

  By Troy | October 24, 2007 - 3:23 pm | Legislation Leave a comment

labelledbooks Gifted Education Funding Changes in FloridaOctober 23, 2007: Tampabay.com has an article about a proposed state bill that would require districts to be more open about how much money is being spent on gifted education.This is a good sign of things to come for gifted education. It always seems like states wait until a program is successful, and then they copy it. We should all hope that other states will pass similar legislation. In most (almost all?) states, gifted education funding is just part of general special education funding. It would be nice to have a specific amount earmarked for gifted education.

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