New York City's radical proposal for a troubled program:
radical solution proposed this week
by Mayor de Blasio's school diversity panel--phase out the city school's gifted program and screened schools entirely. Instead, they recommend magnet schools and an end to much of the academic tracking, a move that would have effects far beyond the gifted program itself. Exams for elementary admission should be scrapped, and high schools admissions should be reconfigured so that high school populations more closely resemble the population of their boroughs.
It is hard to imagine a system the size of New York City's without a program to address the special needs and aspirations of its gifted students, particularly when it once had one of the most ambitious gifted programs in the country, but it's also hard to imagine such a system seeing its own attempts to improve lost under a suffocating culture of segregation. Segregation doesn't just happen; people with power make it happen, and that's a hard obstacle to overcome.
In the world of gifted education, there is one argument for doing away with gifted programs that makes sense.
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