Show 50: Excerpt - Minorities and Gifted and Talented Education
A PERSISTENT ISSUE that comes up with gifted and talented education is that too few minority students tend to be included in the programs: nationally, Native Americans, Hispanics and African Americans have been under-represented in gifted and talented programs by as much as 50%.
Dr. Donna Ford (at left) has been studying minority under-representation in gifted and talented programs for about 20 years; during that time, she’s seen some improvement in the numbers -- Native Americans are more equally represented in gifted and talented programs than they used to be, and Hispanics have seen some gains. But African Americans have not.
KTD regular contributor Jessica Cochran has the full story below.
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