Gifted and Talented Education
There are currently an estimated three million children with gifts
and talents in the United States whose unique educational needs go
largely unaddressed. By neglecting the educational needs of these
students, we put our country at a disadvantage to effectively compete in
the global marketplace and deprive them of an appropriate, challenging
education.
Dubbed the “quiet crisis” by former Secretary of
Education Richard Riley in 1993, the availability of gifted education
still varies dramatically between and within states, leaving many of our
nation’s schools under-prepared to meet the learning needs of
these students. Unfortunately, the federal government has done little to
properly address the educational needs of students with gifts and
talents.
Currently, only one small federal program is dedicated to identifying
and serving students with gifts and talents, the Jacob K. Javits Gifted
and Talented Students Education Act. With less than three cents out of
every $100 of the federal K-12 education budget being devoted to our
nation’s gifted and talented students in 2007, the Javits program
has been chronically under-funded at levels too low to fully achieve the
nationwide goal of improving gifted education in America.
CEC believes that every student should have access to a challenging
education.
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