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When Schools Only Recognize Academic Giftedness

My daughter is artistically gifted but the school only recognizes academic giftedness so she thinks she is stupid because she struggles with standardized tests even though she creates things that make adults cry.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Narrow definitions of intelligence invalidate non-academic forms of exceptional ability.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gifted education and its discontents?”

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