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A Program for the Potentially-Gifted Disadvantaged: A Progress Report.

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Corbin, Richard – The English Record, 1968

Schools must attempt to identify and develop those gifted young people who, because of environment and background, are faced with limited opportunities for achievement. At Hunter College High School, New York City, a program was instituted in which"disadvantaged, but potentially gifted" students made up 25% of each entering seventh-grade class.…

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Bound Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged