Advancing Federal Policies for Students with Gifts

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Advancing Federal Policies for Students with
Gifts Talents
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Facts About Students with Gifts Talents
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Facts About Students with Gifts Talents

• Availability of services depend on state/local
  decisions vary between and within states.

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Facts About Students with Gifts Talents

• Research has shown that high-achieving students
  from disadvantaged backgrounds, when compared to
  their more advantaged peers, are
• twice as likely to drop out of school
• more likely to lose ground as they move forward
  in their schooling and
• less likely to attend or graduate from college.

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Excellence Gap

• Gap between Caucasian and/or more affluent
  students and Hispanic, Black, less affluent
  peers.
• Every state has excellence gap that will take
  decades to close.

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Federal Initiatives
Sen. Grassley (R-IA)
Rep. Tom Latham (R-IA)
Sen. Mikulski (D-MD)
Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO)
Sen. Casey (D-PA)
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Its Baaaacccckkkk.!!!

• Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act
• Provides RD with focus on underserved
  populations
• Defunded in 2011 after budget negotiations
  cut/eliminated 43 education programs
• Concentrated advocacy resulted in 5 million in
  FY 2014
• National Research Center on Gifted Education
• Demonstration Grants

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