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When Gifted Tracking Creates Lifelong Alienation

My gifted program separated us from regular kids starting in fourth grade and now I cannot relate to anyone who did not have the same experience and I feel like I live on another planet.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Educational segregation has created a fundamental disconnection from common human experience.

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Worth thinking about

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

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