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A nationwide problem with inequality in gifted education
- dang 11y agoWe changed the baity title to a representative phrase from the article, in accordance with the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- icelancer 11y agoThank god. I clicked through and saw WaPo's actual headline... unbelievable. Even reputable media companies (for whatever value of "reputable" you give WaPo) are succumbing to this garbage. Thanks for fighting the good fight.
- schoen 11y agoI remember taking lots of tests when I was a little kid to get into gifted and talented education programs (which I thought were great and led to lots of friends and interesting cultural experiences). But having kids take these tests in the first place seemed to be a very middle-class kind of thing.
- xiaoma 11y agoIt's disappointing that a long article talking about economic class race and gifted children completely ignored Asian kids just days after another mathematical breakthrough from Terrence Tao was reported. (An Erdos problem people and more recently machines have been unsuccessfully attacking since the 1930s) http://www.nature.com/news/maths-whizz-solves-a-master-s-riddle-1.18441 http://www.nature.com/news/maths-whizz-solves-a-master-s-rid... How many kids like he was simply have their curiosity crushed in today's schools? For that matter it's hard to say how much flexibility public schools would have shown him even a couple of decades ago if he'd been growing up in the US instead of Australia.