The Under-Educated: How We Have Neglected the Bright Child
According to Professor ROBERT C. WILSON of Reed College, Oregon, the plight of the gifted child in our public schools is far more serious than that of the laggard, and he has figures to show that only about one half of the youngsters in the upper 10 per cent of ability enter college. Why this should be so and what can be done to correct it is the gist of the article which follows. Mr. Wilson is a Bostonian who took his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. at the University of Southern California. He went to Reed College in 1953 as Associate Professor of Psychology, and he is now on loan to the Portland Public Schools as Research Director of the Gifted Child Project.