How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse
How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse Copy Link Albuquerque studentsâ artwork and a poem about volcanoes, displayed at the 2019 National Association for Gifted Children conference. (Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report) April Wells grew up west of Chicago, a bright and avid bookworm in a low-income family. Her district, U-46, had gifted classes, but most of the students in them were white, and no one suggested that Wells, who is Black, might benefit from them. Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Bl...
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