No Gifted Child Kept Behind

A letter to the NYTImes: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/14/opinion/l14educ.htm
Gifted Children

To the Editor:

Diane Ravitch ("Every State Left Behind," Op-Ed, Nov. 7) hits the nail on the head when she suggests that we should not sacrifice our country's future for low academic standards and demands for good news.

A particular problem not addressed by most American schools is that our gifted youth are told to wait for their classmates to catch up with them and not to rush their learning. America is wasting precious talent because it keeps its gifted children from soaring.

Stringent federal standards are great, but why does No Child Left Behind have to mean "every gifted child kept behind"?

Mary Beth Miotto
Northborough, Mass., Nov. 7, 2005
The writer is vice president, Massachusetts Association for Gifted Children.

Posted by at November 14, 2005 10:28 AM
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