Miller studied the various experiments in educating precocious and gifted kids at Johns Hopkins University and the North Carolina School for Science and Math. With good monitoring and social support, he didn't see any reason why brainy teenagers couldn't take on the intellectual challenge of college. Almost half are female. One of Pinizzotto's own students wound up a finalist in the famous Intel Science Talent Search, the nation's top recognition for high school students' research in science. Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts and a few other states are supporting their own enriched academies on college campuses.
Every state has multiple college campuses already, with existing dorms and faculty.
And it's not only legislatures that should get involved. It would be great if a corporation or a foundation could build us a new dorm, so we could house twice as many students and not have to turn so many qualified applicants away each year. I'd love to have totally equal opportunity access to this academy. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of vacant high-tech jobs available in the United States, and that number is likely to increase dramatically in a few years. There should be a lot more.