Failing our Brightest Kids : the Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students / Chester E. Finn, Jr., Brandon L. Wright.
By: Finn, Chester E., Jr [author.]
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Contributor(s): Wright, Brandon L [author.]
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Series: Educational innovations: Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2015]Description: viii, 299 pages : illustrations, charts ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781612508412; 1612508413.Other title: Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students.Subject(s): Gifted children -- Education -- United States![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | LC 3993.9 .F565 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | c20034773 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-286) and index.
Educating smart kids : why bother? -- How is the United States doing? -- How disagreement holds us back -- How the system slows us down -- Will differentiation move us forward? -- How do other countries educate smart kids? -- Japan : early neglect, later intensity -- Singapore : enough of a good thing? -- Korea : too much pressure? -- Taiwan : do as we say, not as we do -- Finland : not quite as advertised -- Germany : differentiating without differences -- Hungary : much talk, less action -- Switzerland : decentralized to excess? -- England : sifting through the policy rubble -- Ontario : how "special" is "gifted"? -- Western Australia : in for the long haul -- What have we learned? -- Moves America should make.
Text in English.
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