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Article: The progress of gifted students in a rural district that emphasized acceleration strategies.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Roeper Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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For a number of reasons rural schools may have difficulty in establishing and maintaining coherent programs for gifted students. There may be too few students in certain rural schools to warrant the establishment of special classrooms for the gifted and because they are often poorly funded, rural schools can ill afford options--like pull-out enrichment programs--that have proven to be costly and ineffective (e.g., Cox, Daniel, & Boston, 1985; Gallagher, Weiss, Oglesby, & Thomas, 1982).
Acceleration is a mechanism by which schools, including less affluent rural schools, can provide gifted students with instruction that more closely approximates their abilities and ...