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Dec 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Gifted education is an ineffective system in providing for advanced students, as proven by data. Not just is the gifted apparatus not identifying advanced students accurately, but it disproportionately provides for privileged youth instead 🧵
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In Fairfax County, Virginia, one of the US’s largest school districts, public schools in wealthier areas, like Carson Middle, have a gifted (‘AAP’) population of >60% of students, while in poor parts of the county, schools like Poe Middle have <10% gifted students. 🧵
