The Other Achievement Gap
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Deborah Ruf
Deborah Ruf, Ph.D., the founder of TalentIgniter, is an international authority in gifted assessment, test interpretation, and guidance for the gifted. Having been a parent, teacher and administrator in elementary through graduate education, she writes and speaks about school issues and social and emotional adjustment of gifted children. She is co-author of the book Successfully Parenting the Gifted Child and author of Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind. See the Ruf Estimates of Levels of Gifted Online Assessment on her site. By Deborah Ruf
Published on 02/24/2011
How can we better encourage and reinforce the most entrepreneurial and talented among us?
We can start by changing the ways we set up schools and the ways we
address the very different learning abilities and needs of the students
in them.
The well-known “achievement gap” refers to the difference in the
average academic performance between our highest and lowest achieving
population groups...I believe our most worrisome achievement gap should be the performance
gap we see within each individual rather than those between any groups
of people.
How can we better encourage and reinforce the most entrepreneurial and talented among us?
We can start by changing the ways we set up schools and the ways we
address the very different learning abilities and needs of the students
in them.
The well-known “achievement gap” refers to the difference in the
average academic performance between our highest and lowest achieving
population groups...I believe our most worrisome achievement gap should be the performance
gap we see within each individual rather than those between any groups
of people.