Gifted education is often rife with elitism: test results used to identify gifted students tend to reflect the social strata of the students' families and reinforce the achievement gap.  This is partly because wealthy and pushy parents are more likely to ensure that their children are nurtured and identified as gifted.  To level the educational field, tests should be available to all students and should be administered recurrently.  Furthermore, the definition of giftedness should be expanded. Since intelligence is malleable, tests that identify gifted students should be malleable.  Since giftedness encompasses traits beyond intelligence, tests should measure those traits. Accommodating gifted students in public schools whose primary objective is grade-level proficiency is problematic.  Historically, schools have spent far more resources helping low-achieving students than gifted students.  However, the Every Student Succeeds Act, signed in...(Read Full Article)