Lower-income students are far less likely to get into gifted programs, a new study finds — regardless of academic achievement. “We found kids going to the exact same schools had very different probabilities of being assigned,” a co-author tells WPLN.
Vanderbilt University's Jason Grissom co-authored. He says, while people often talk about a lack of access to gifted programs for low-income students, his research found something different.
“The biggest separation wasn’t across schools, but within schools,” Grissom says. “We found kids going to the exact same schools had very different probabilities of being assigned on the basis of socioeconomic status.” The study, conducted jointly by Vanderbilt and the University of Florida, was just published in the Harvard Educational Review. And it’s the first of its kind to use both national dataGrissom, an associate professor of public policy and education at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, says districts like Metro Schools should take stock of recruitment efforts to gifted programs.
“I think our results suggest that the district would benefit from taking a hard look at its assignment processes and how kids are identified [for gifted programs],” Grissom says., the number of black and Hispanic students in the district’s gifted program falls short of its equity requirements.
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