New report argues that schools are overlooking gifted students

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** Up to 3.6 million students should be labeled gifted, but aren’t ([link removed])
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Four of 10 children attended public schools where not a single student was identified as gifted, even though most states legally require schools to find and serve gifted children and provide money to do so. There’s “untapped potential around the country,” a new report’s co-author Gilman Whiting of Vanderbilt University said.
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** The teacher’s role in “phenomenon-based learning” ([link removed])
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Phenomenon-based learning is a lot like project-based learning, a more familiar term in the United States. Both prioritize hands-on activities that give students control over the direction of the project and both emphasize assignments that relate to the real world.


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