What is the status of ambitious national recommendations designed to develop the talent of our brightest students? Have states, districts, and individual schools taken action? Are we much further along as a nation in raising the expectation level for gifted and talented students?
As a former middle and high school principal, I have pictures of specific students in mind when I contemplate these answers. There has been progress, but not nearly enough has been accomplished.
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