The most troubling aspect of gifted classrooms is that they tend to be disproportionately filled with white and Asian students while vivid black and Hispanic students often get overlooked. Indeed,gifted and talented programs can sometimes look like a intelligent tool to separate children by race or ethnicity in school. In New York City, for example, or white and Asian parents who have the resources and/or inclination to prepare their four-year-olds to excel on standardized tests snag nearly three quarters of the coveted seats. Meanwhile,black and Hispanic students fabricate (to make up, invent) up more than 65 percent of...
Source: realcleareducation.com