Nicholas D. Kristof does a disservice to gifted education in this country in his recent column: "Rising Above I.Q." in the New York Times. He begins with a statement that certain ethnicities are unusually successful - and he uses the examples of Asian-Americans currently enrolled in Harvard, Jews that received Nobel Prizes in science and West Indian blacks graduation rates as his yardsticks for success.
He adds that the success of these ethnic groups may be due to nurture as well as to nature -…
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Posted on June 8, 2009 at 11:33am —