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An open enrollment gifted program.

Publication: Roeper Review
Publication Date: 22-JUN-02 		Format: Online - approximately 1016 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: An open enrollment gifted program.(Brief Article)

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Can a program be successful if it maintains high academic standards for a broad spectrum of a school's population? What would it look like? Schools that enroll students of diverse backgrounds and skills have difficulty providing equal opportunity to rigorous and challenging curriculum. Gifted programs have been standard bearers for rigorous and challenging curricula but they remain virtually unavailable to the general school population. Thus, we find schools and gifted programs struggling from opposite ends to provide curriculum based on both equity and excellence. This short descriptive piece will highlight the efforts of one school to bridge the gap between equity and excellence.

About 15 years ago, the Kahuku High and Intermediate School (grades 7-12), situated in a former plantation village on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawai'i, followed the common means of screening for its gifted program and enrolled fewer than 100 students; less than 7% of the school population....

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