Acceleration is one of the more hotly debated areas of gifted education. And yet, the research is clear – acceleration does not inherently hurt or damage the social development of gifted children (Kulik, 2004). In fact, many gifted children benefit from the exposure to more challenging work.
via More on myths: Acceleration and Gifted Kids « An Intense Life.
Acceleration is hard for administrators to track, messes up test tracking, etc. However, all of these are tired excuses that administrators use to discourage acceleration. If a district won’t do a complete grade-level acceleration, try a subject-level acceleration and if that is successful, push for grade acceleration.
Bottom line: gifted students must remain engaged in learning or they won’t reach their full potential.
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