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Article: Accountability for gifted students.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- June 1, 1998
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The call for a differentiated curriculum or program for gifted students raises the issues of how such changes should be made and how they should be assessed. Mr. Gallagher proffers some suggestions.
One of the key elements of the new education reform movement is clearly accountability. Over the years, members of the general public have become distressed by what they perceive to be the excessive promises of educators who were trying to overcome the effects of larger societal problems. In addition, the public schools were given responsibility, without substantial help from other segments of the society, for tasks that had little chance of success (for example, doing ...