{"id":68,"date":"2004-03-02T08:08:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T08:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=68"},"modified":"2004-03-02T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-02T08:08:50","slug":"smart_children_left_behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"Smart children left behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind, New York State<br \/>\nand Illinois have stopped dedicating funds to providing enriched programs<br \/>\nfor gifted students, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/02\/education\/02GIFT.html?ex=1393563600&#038;en=5dc36fe2eae59f62&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">The New York Times reports<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8220;As long as students pass the exams, the federal law offers no rewards for<br \/>\nraising the scores of high achievers, or punishment if their progress lags.&#8221;<br \/>\nWe have special protection for the disabled, the various races, the two<br \/>\ngenders (I think), ESL students&#8211;and we condemn the brightest to<br \/>\nintellectual starvation.<br \/>\nThe consequences of abandoning a substantial percentage of the Republic&#8217;s<br \/>\nbrightest students&#8211;even if the great cities, by virtue of their size, and<br \/>\nthe wealthiest suburbs, by spending their own money, are able to protect<br \/>\ntheir brightest&#8211;will be severe. &#8220;Justice cannot sleep forever.&#8221;<br \/>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arclights.net\">ALEX R. COHEN, J.D.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind, New York State and Illinois have stopped dedicating funds to providing enriched programs for gifted students, The New York Times reports. &#8220;As long as students pass the exams, the federal law offers no rewards for raising the scores of high achievers, or punishment if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}