In her bimonthly column for The Tennessean, Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development, writes about the challenges of educating gifted children.
In many schools and classrooms, we ask gifted students to adjust to the curriculum rather than adjusting the curriculum to them. This is unfortunate because today’s gifted students are tomorrow’s innovators. We all benefit when gifted children succeed. Research on gifted education has shown beneficial effects as measured by degrees attained, career achievements, publications or patents earned as far out as 30 or 40 years later.
Read the whole column at The Tennessean.