Article Review The article Does America Hate Its Gifted Kids by Chris Weller published on January 16th, 2014 shines light on how the education system fails to include gifted kids. This article causes conflict for the people in all aspects of the education field, including teachers, students, parents and many more because of their direct influence with U.S. education. The article talks partly about how No Child Left Behind only helps students that are below average causing them to ignore gifted students. Some teachers and educators have been changing their way of teaching towards gifted kids, but a lot of them are not. The teachers that are not changing are ignoring the gifted kids that have the potential to be our future and just focused on raising the average of the normal students.
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A professor at Vanderbilt University named David Lubinski stated, “Gifted children are a precious human-capital resource.” This basically means that it’s not an emotional duty to help these kids. These kids are our future and they will be inventing and innovating things that will be a huge success. We must put our trust in these kids and quit ignoring them. Lubinski started the SMPY, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth in 1971 at John Hopkins. The kids him and his team were studying are now 38 years old and “have had success in a wide range of careers, from law and medicine to arts and humanities, and to engineering, business and pedagogy. Of the 320 participants, 203 earned at least a master’s degree. And 142 of them (44 percent) earned doctoral degrees, a ratio far higher than that of the average population, which adds the coveted Ph. D. initials at a rate of only 2 percent”. Obviously gifted kids are something special that we should not just put on the back
A professor at Vanderbilt University named David Lubinski stated, “Gifted children are a precious human-capital resource.” This basically means that it’s not an emotional duty to help these kids. These kids are our future and they will be inventing and innovating things that will be a huge success. We must put our trust in these kids and quit ignoring them. Lubinski started the SMPY, Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth in 1971 at John Hopkins. The kids him and his team were studying are now 38 years old and “have had success in a wide range of careers, from law and medicine to arts and humanities, and to engineering, business and pedagogy. Of the 320 participants, 203 earned at least a master’s degree. And 142 of them (44 percent) earned doctoral degrees, a ratio far higher than that of the average population, which adds the coveted Ph. D. initials at a rate of only 2 percent”. Obviously gifted kids are something special that we should not just put on the back