[IP] Smart Children Left Behind

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Delivered-To: dfarber+@ux13.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:06:32 -0500
From: "Alex R. Cohen" <arc@arclights.net>
Subject: Smart Children Left Behind
To: declan@well.com, dave@farber.net

This story may interest your readers:

In order to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind, New York State
and Illinois have stopped dedicating funds to providing enriched programs
for gifted students, The New York Times reports.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/education/02GIFT.html?hp=&pagewanted=all&p
osition=

"As long as students pass the exams, the federal law offers no rewards for
raising the scores of high achievers, or punishment if their progress lags."

We have special protection for the disabled, the various races, the two
genders (I think), ESL students--and we condemn the brightest to
intellectual starvation.

The consequences of abandoning a substantial percentage of the Republic's
brightest students--even if the great cities, by virtue of their size, and
the wealthiest suburbs, by spending their own money, are able to protect
their brightest--will be severe. "Justice cannot sleep forever."

ALEX R. COHEN, J.D.
http://www.arclights.net

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