Can We Provide a Better Program for the Able Student?

Abstract

This is only to say what many have said before-There is now a critical need for highly-trained people-There are now thousands of youth with superior abilitỹ who are not completing their high-school education-This is a tragic waste, and Perhaps, in retrospect, this will have been the time when the schools made their most important contribution to the preservation of our culture.

Advanced Placement and American Education: A Foucauldian Analysis of the Advanced Placement Program of the College Board

“…The belief was that each group needed separate curricula in order to reach their full potential. Bish (1958) states this belief, "The crux of the matter is that there is nothing so unequal as the equal treatment of unequals." (p. 16).…”