Failing our brightest kids
Subtitle: the global challenge of educating high-ability students
By: Chester E. Finn, Jr., Brandon L. Wright
Contributors: Wright, Brandon L.
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9781612508412; 9781612508429
Subjects: Gifted children; Education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Educating smart kids : why bother?; title: How is the United States doing?; title: How disagreement holds us back; title: How the system slows us down; title: Will differentiation move us forward?; title: How do other countries educate smart kids?; title: Japan : early neglect, later intensity; title: Singapore : enough of a good thing?; title: Korea : too much pressure?; title: Taiwan : do as we say, not as we do; title: Finland : not quite as advertised; title: Germany : differentiating without differences; title: Hungary : much talk, less action; title: Switzerland : decentralized to excess?; title: England : sifting through the policy rubble; title: Ontario : how "special" is "gifted"?; title: Western Australia : in for the long haul; title: What have we learned?; title: Moves America should make.