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School Reform And Gifted Education Summary

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For this assignment I chose one of the provided abstracts within Lesson 5. It is the “School Reform and Gifted Education - Opportunities and Issues” by Donald J. Treffinger. The text argues the importance of improving the Gifted Education through the school reform. The author of the text is concerned that the gifted education might be neglected in the school system. He advocates to educators for challenging all learners “so that minimum competencies will not become maximum competencies.” (Treffinger,1991)
In this text, the author claims that improving Gifted Education would make the “school reform” more powerful. On the other hand, not including the Gifted Education in the school reform will cause lesser success of such reform. However, the
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