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Title: Genius Denied : How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds by Jan Davidson, Bob Davidson, Laura Vanderkam ISBN: 0-7432-5460-0 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Genius Denied: our national educational policy
Comment: Genius Denied: How to stop wasting our brightest young minds, what you and your school can do for your gifted child. The title is long, and speaks volumes. Why are we, as a country, denying our gifted children an appropriate education? What can we, as parents and as educators, do for these unique children?
What is gifted education? Genius Denied differentiates between the elitist enrichment programs billed as gifted education by school districts across the country, and real gifted education, appropriate level curriculum in major subject areas. And it asks important questions, like why is gifted education tied to the student's age, rather than to his or her educational needs?
The gifted children hurt by our national policy of egalitarianism aren't the rich kids, the Davidsons points out. Wealthy parents can afford the private schools, tutors, and specialized programs that gifted children need to survive and grow; they can afford to move to other school districts or states when such programs are unavailable. It's the socio-economically disadvantaged, the immigrant, even the middle-income child who's family cannot afford such privileges; these are the children who are denied an appropriate education.
Genius Denied is not just a story of educational failures; it details education successes, and how we can duplicate them for other gifted children. And it's not only the gifted children, but our society as a whole that will benefit. While not every gifted child is a future inventor or political leader or composer or scientific discoverer, every gifted child IS important to the future of our nation and our world, and none should experience the educational misfortune that has been experienced by child after child detailed in the book.
Genius Denied is a book that should be read, and taken to heart, by every school administrator and policy maker, and by every parent of a gifted child. And maybe, with the help of this book, Genius Denied will become just a book title, instead of our national education policy.
Rating: 5
Summary: How ironic!
Comment: How ironic! Just as I was finishing Genius Denied, I picked up the daily paper to see that the program for the "gifted children" has just been cut at the local school. As the Davidsons correctly emphasize in their book, there are priorities for all tastes and interests except the most talented students in our schools. Somehow they are supposed to adapt to the avalanche of mediocrity that surrounds them and conceal their precociousness. Sadly, and again this is a well developed theme of the book, not only are programs for gifted children underfunded, but various districts intentionally place obstacles in their path.
It is truly an interesting commentary on the state of education that 7th and 8th graders can compete with seniors in athletics, but God forbid they should skip a grade if they are superior students. They can get their skulls fractured in a sporting event, but not have knowledge put into those very same skulls.
The authors have done a masterful job of identifying and refuting many of the foolish doctrines and philosophies that have contaminated education, both public and private, for the better part of three decades: heterogeneous grouping, inclusion, mainstreaming, self-esteem prattle; all are targeted and appropriatedly consigned to the dust bin.
Genius Denied belongs on the reading docket with Diane Ravitch's - THE LANGUAGE POLICE, and Charles Syke's - DUMBING DOWN OUR KIDS. It is a desperate call for action and reform before America squanders its most precious resource - its talented youth.
Rating: 5
Summary: In response to hmigdo1
Comment: Dear Former Gifted Student & Teacher,
It is "weak", not "week". In addition, I want to add that there are times it takes people who are NOT a part of the normal process to see and improve the process from the outside. Most great inventors were from "the outside" looking in. To be required to have "an educator" attached to their book infers they have nothing to contribute unless it contains the normal educational myopia of someone who is a part of the system.
In every sport, field, discipline of life, there are always innovators -- and many come from without. One of my personal favorites was Bill Boomer, a man who became a swim coach (with no prior swimming or swim coaching experience) and turned the entire swimming world upside down with his theories and methods. Now everyone is learning to swim his way. In drumming, ONE drummer changed the grip for just about every other drummer out there. J.K Rowling took the publishing world by storm with no "industry" experience. And I could go on.
Your ONE star review of an excellent book is not justified in the least -- it is an EXCELLENT book. I really wonder what your real intent was with your review...
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Title: Exceptionally Gifted Children by Miraca U. M. Gross ISBN: 0415314917 Publisher: Falmer Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Different Minds: Gifted Children With AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and other Learning Deficits by Deirdre V. Lovecky ISBN: 1853029645 Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Raisin' Brains: Surviving My Smart Family by Karen L.J. Isaacson ISBN: 0910707545 Publisher: Great Potential Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? by Maureen Neihart, Sally M. Reis, Nancy M. Robinson, Sidney M. Moon ISBN: 1882664779 Publisher: Prufrock Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual Spatial Learner by Linda Kreger Silverman ISBN: 193218600X Publisher: DeLeon Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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