In America, Lousy Education for the Gifted
18th December 2013
I agree 100% with the sentiment of the article, but the article doesn’t really point out that the number one goal of educational policy for the last three decades has been to close the gaps between whites and non-Asian minorities. To the extent that gap-closing is the number-one goal, better education for the smartest students, who are overwhelmingly white and Asian, is a negative goal because that would increase the gap.
This is why if you have smart children, the only way to ensure they get a quality education is to send them to an elite and expensive private school. (Or at least a public school in an overwhelmingly upper-middle-class district where there’s a strong PTA controlled by parents who want their gifted children to get advanced education.)
In other words, Scions of the Crust. For the rest, the goal is equality, not excellence; we don’t want these uppity middle class kids competing with our Precious Legacies for the best jobs.