1/3 of the kids in the NYC schools are “gifted.” The simplest solution is to make the “gifted” program the normal program (as it was 50 years ago) and put the dumb kids into the “retarded” program. Problem solved.
Yup. The school chancellor seems to be stuck on semantics.
Call the top 35% whatever one wants, but let's keep those top 35% the hell away from the 65% losers.