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English translation: skipping a grade
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| 07:31 Sep 11, 2006 |
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|  Selected response from: Nicole Schnell United States Local time: 00:22 | ||||||
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| 3 +4 | skipping a grade |
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| 4 +1 | ...sat the 'Abitur' exam one year early |
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peer agreement (net): +4
peer agreement (net): +4skipping a grade Explanation: "Back in the mid-1980s, when I was moving through elementary school, I was identified as a “gifted and talented” student on the basis of standardized tests and classroom performance. Administrators and teachers approached my mother, who was already mildly suspicious of educators and rather protective of her only child, about a gifted student program - and even the possibility of my skipping a grade. I was identified as frequently “bored” or “impatient with classmates” even though I was already grouped with the brighter kids (This was back when my school actually numbered each class with a subscript based on talent: 2^1 were the smartest second graders, 2^2 were the next smartest, and so on.)" ____________________________ "The principal's views are common. Many educators feel that grade skipping causes more problems than it solves. When psychologist David Elkind published The Hurried Child in 1981, academic acceleration fell even further out of favor. Although Elkind's book does not discuss grade skipping or gifted children specifically, his polemic against the widespread hurrying of children to grow up faster is often cited as evidence of the dangers of acceleration." Reference: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:42k8vvb17T8J:www.associa... Reference: http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:iXGYkpekAB4J:www.newhori... |
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