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Axing gifted education hurts our kids, our classrooms — and us all

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Schools are ending gifted and talented programs: They will no longer separate kids by ability.

To address “inequity.”

“This is so misguided,” education researcher Michael Petrilli told me.

“These equity people say, ‘Oh, we’re against gifted education.’ At the same time, they’re upset that universities aren’t very diverse.”

But those same equity advocates “are a big part of the problem,” he said.

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“They stand in the way of kids of color and low-income kids getting what they need in elementary and middle and high school so they could compete.”

Different level classes haven’t always been controversial.

Testing, then putting kids on different tracks was standard when I was in school.

“It’s super hard to teach reading to everybody if........

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