Re: Kids getting smarter younger?

On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:01:14 GMT, "Karl M. Bunday"
<kmbunday@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Don wrote, sharing a newspaper link:

http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2006/03/01/news/306new0.txt

Kind of interesting.

It's kind of interesting to me that the 800 on the SAT math section at age
twelve was even considered newsworthy; I know younger examples of aces on the
SAT math section, which were not reported in the local press here for want of a
press release. But maybe few of those examples are known in CA, where most
talent search SAT testing occurs in seventh grade (thus usually involving
twelve-year-olds, unless the seventh grader had a grade skip).

Best wishes to the boy mentioned in the article, and congratulations to the
school officials who are helping him get a sufficiently flexible education. We
homeschool here in large part to make talent development for each of our
children more feasible.

Readers of sci.math who would like to know more about talent search testing of
middle-school-age pupils can refer to

http://www.gt-cybersource.org/Record.aspx?NavID=2_0&rid=12649

or

http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/talent_search.htm

Hi- I can see where you are coming from. Not much mentioned about the
state of Ca which spends more than most states for education and gets
the least amount of good from it. In my 60's and never having kids, I
haven't really followed much in way of education after I left college.
I was just comparing what high schools in my day taught and what I
am seeing now. Different worlds.

Don
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