The purpose of this blog series is to analyze the reasons behind the underidentification of certain identity groups in a large school district’s gifted programs, including its prestigious gifted school. Many of the criteria and methods used by the district to determine which students are accepted to the school contribute to racial and ethnic imbalances …
Put Students First. Seek Growth. Be Open to Change. (Part Five) Read More »
So far in this blog series, I’ve shown the discrepancies between the proportion of Black, Latine, and economically disadvantaged students in a large school district and the representation of students from these identity groups in the district’s elite gifted school. I’ve also analyzed some of the reasons for these inequities. The table below illustrates the …
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Welcome back to my blog series. In Part 1, I explained that the series is an update to my June 2021 article, Promoting Privilege: Selecting Students for a Public Gifted School, a research-based analysis of reasons that Black, Latine, and economically disadvantaged students are grossly underrepresented at a large school district’s state-of-the-art gifted school. Before …
Put Students First. Seek Growth. Be Open to Change. (Part Three) Read More »
In Part 1, I explained that the purpose of this blog series is to provide updates to my June 2021 journal article. In the article, I analyzed the criteria for identifying gifted students at a large school district and the procedures used to admit children to the district’s exclusive gifted school. These criteria and procedures …
Put Students First. Seek Growth. Be Open to Change. (Part Two) Read More »
My most recent journal article, Promoting Privilege: Selecting Students for a Public Gifted School, was published one year ago this month. In the article, I scrutinized a large school district’s criteria for identifying gifted students, as well as the district’s procedures for admitting children to its prestigious gifted school. The article caught the attention of …
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“I’m going to curl my lower lip back and let my upper row of teeth come down and rest on my lip.” “Gently blow air through a very small opening between your teeth and the lower lip.” “Now can you make the /f/ sound on your own?” Across the country, many educators are learning …
This Is How YOU See Me? The Dehumanization of Black Bodies In OUR SCHOOLS Read More »
If you’ve been around Edjacent for a while (before it even had a name), you may recall a blog post I wrote in June 2020 called You Should Know. It’s hard for me to read now, just as it was hard to write then. The world was and is still changing in dramatic ways, as …
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by Douglas G. Wren, Ed.D. Before taking a central office job with the DeKalb County (GA) School District, I was a classroom teacher at a magnet school for high achievers. Besides testing students to determine if they qualified for the “gifted” label, I taught an afterschool assessment course to teachers who were seeking their gifted …
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