Skip A Grade? Busting the Myths

Grade and subject acceleration should be common. But it isn’t. Part 2

Grade and subject acceleration should be common; but it’s not.

Again, I’m using parts of an article published in 2015 to segue off what Owen Phillips, who wrote this for NPR, addressed a favorite topic of mine. Here’s the link to the article: Skip a Grade Early Works, But is Hard to Implement. Why?

In this second post, I take Owen Phillips’ 2015 observations about how difficult it continues to be to get decent acceleration opportunities for gifted children. I don’t hesitate to refer to many older written studies and articles, either, because very little changes; very little progress is made; we have extremely entrenched systems when it comes to education. Even when research about the validity and usefulness of radical and general acceleration continues to mount, very little changes.

Owen Phillips pointed this out in his 2015 piece about acceleration of some students in schools:

Two new reports in the past few weeks argue that there should be a lot more of this acceleration, and that states and school districts often get in the way. Researchers at the University of Iowa cite one pervasive, unsubstantiated myth: That jumping ahead is…