No More ‘Secret Handshake’: Universal Screening Qualifies 600 More Memphis Students for Gifted Education. More to Come.
January 14, 2020
By: Laura Faith Kebede
Source: Chalkbeat
Before this month, just one student between kindergarten and second grade, a white boy, was identified as gifted at Treadwell Elementary School in Memphis, where half of the students are black, more than a third are Hispanic, and just 4% are white.
Now, eight other students have joined him after Shelby County Schools switched to universal screening instead of relying on teacher recommendations to identify advanced students.