EVERY year in Singapore 1% of pupils in the third year of primary school bring home an envelope headed “On government service”. Inside is an invitation to the city-state’s Gifted Education Programme. to get the overture,pupils must ace tests in maths, English and general ability”. If their parents accept the offer, and the children are taught using a special curriculum.
Singapore’s approach is emblematic of the traditional form of “gifted education,one that uses intelligence tests with strict thresholds to identify children with seemingly innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) ability. Yet in many countries it is being overhauled in two main ways. The first is that educationists are using a broader range of methods to identify highly clever children, particularly those from poor households. The second is an increasing focus on fostering the attitudes and personality traits found in successful people in an array of disciplines—including those who did not ace intelligence tests.recent research lies...
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Source: economist.com