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The mirage of the gifted child

Critics say the systems we use to educate the brightest kids are flawed and exclusionary. What if it’s the very premise of ...
The term "gifted" has been around since 1916. At the time, it was used to describe children with higher-than-average IQs, and was first used by psychologists Leta Hollingworth and Lewis Terman. While ...