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Title | Article: USF Reaching Out To Find More Gifted Students, Including ELL’s |
Body | From http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/25/na-usf-reaching-out-to-find-more-gifted-students USF reaching out to find more gifted students By MICHELLE FINLAYSON and REBECCA WAINRIGHT October 25, 2009 Chloe Gousse, who takes math and science classes in the gifted program at Hunter's Green Elementary, is not typical of her classmates because English is not her first language. Students who are not native English speakers and those from lower socio-economic groups generally are underrepresented in gifted programs, said Lauri Kirsch, the district's supervisor of K-12 gifted education in Hillsborough County. Recently, the University of South Florida's College of Education received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund REACH, which stands for Recognizing Extraordinary Accomplishments of Children, to research this issue. Read the full article at http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/25/na-usf-reaching-out-to-find-more-gifted-students |
Source | Tampa Bay Online |
Inputdate | 2009-11-01 05:52:45 |
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Publishdate | 2009-11-02 00:00:00 |
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