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Corcoran, Sean P.; Baker-Smith, Christine – Research Alliance for New York City Schools, 2015
New York City's elite public specialized high schools have a long history of offering a rigorous college preparatory education to the City's most academically talented students. Though immensely popular and highly selective, their policy of admitting students on the basis of a single entrance exam has been heavily criticized. Many argue, for…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Special Schools, Gifted
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Rybakova, Marina Vladimirovna – Russian Education and Society, 2008
Recognizing that education is an important condition necessary for the development of public life and the economy, the author examines elite education in the natural sciences, its criterion represented by ability and talent rather than social origin or economic status. Education of such students, advocates the author, can ensure the training of a…
Descriptors: Economics, Experiential Learning, Natural Sciences, Social Responsibility
Chin, Christina S.; Harrington, David M. – Gifted Child Today, 2009
InnerSpark is a residential summer arts training program for high school students established by the California State Legislature (California Education Code sections 8950-8957) in order to make it possible for "artistically gifted and talented students, broadly representative of the socioeconomic and ethnic diversity of the state, to receive…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Visual Arts, Gifted, Creative Writing