Can Gifted Education Help Higher-Ability Boys from Disadvantaged Backgrounds?

We are extremely grateful to Cynthia Park for assistance in accessing and interpreting the data used in this study as well as information about the District’s policies and practices, and to Tatiana Reyes for extraordinary research assistance. We also thank seminar participants at Brigham Young University, Duke University, McGill University, Queen’s University, RWI Essen, Simon Frazer University, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, University of Utah, University of Virginia, and the Upjohn Institute. The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through grant R305C200012 to the National Center for Research on Gifted Education. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the U.S. Department of Education or the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• December 19, 2024