Advancing Federal Policies for Students with Gifts & Talents
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Advancing Federal Policies for Students with Gifts & Talents
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Facts About Students with Gifts & Talents
Facts About Students with Gifts & Talents
Availability of services depend on state/local decisions & vary between and within states.
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Facts About Students with Gifts & Talents
• Research has shown that high-achieving students from disadvantaged backgrounds, when compared to their more advantaged peers, are: – twice as likely to drop out of school; – more likely to lose ground as they
move forward in their schooling; and
– less likely to attend or graduate from college.
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Excellence Gap
• Gap between Caucasian and/or more affluent students and Hispanic, Black, less affluent peers.
• Every state has “excellence gap” that will take decades to close.
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Federal Initiatives
Senate: TALENT Act
Sen. Grassley (R-IA)
Sen. Mikulski (D-MD)
Sen. Casey (D-PA)
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House: TALENT Act
Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA)
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)
TALENT Act
Supporting Educator
Development to Ensure Academic
Growth
Confronting and
Addressing the National Excellence
Gap
Continuing Research and Dissemination
on Best Practices in
Gifted Ed
Providing Public
Transparency of Student
Achievement Data
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It’s Baaaacccckkkk….!!!
• Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act– Provides R&D – with focus on underserved populations– Defunded in 2011 after budget negotiations cut/eliminated 43
education programs– Concentrated advocacy resulted in $5 million in FY 2014
• National Research Center on Gifted Education • Demonstration Grants
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Ask Your Senators/Representative to Co-Sponsor TALENT Act; Invest $20 M in Javits Act