TY - BOOK AU - Finn,Chester E. AU - Wright,Brandon L. TI - Failing our Brightest Kids: the Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students T2 - Educational innovations series SN - 9781612508412 AV - LC 3993.9 .F565 2015 PY - 2015///] CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - Harvard Education Press KW - Gifted children KW - Education KW - United States KW - fast KW - Student KW - gnd KW - Kind KW - Schule KW - USA N1 - 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 ER -