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Stories from the Web

In addition to the stories featured on our website, you can find the following stories of acceleration from other websites:

In the 1950s, the Ford Foundation sent two hundred high school students to college. Some were as young as fifteen, an age at which most believed no student would be emotionally or academically ready for college. Read about the Ford Foundation's successful experiment with early entrance to college. (From On Wisconsin Magazine, Spring 2005)
The Davidson Institute for Talent Development has compiled a series of whole grade acceleration success stories.
Young Exceptionally Gifted Students has stories of students who were accelerated.
A twelve-year-old Rutgers student on his Expository Writing class:

(from http://wp.rutgers.edu/videos/watch/4/even-a-12yearold-can-do-it)

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Notes from the Field
The 18 types of acceleration available to bright students fall into two broad categories: grade-based acceleration, which shortens the number of years a student spends in the K–12 system, and subject-based acceleration, which allows for advanced content earlier than customary.
~A Nation Deceived

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Voices of Acceleration

Our experience has been nothing but positive for our precocious, highly-motivated 5th grader. Yes, some of the girls in her grade are now developing physically ahead of her, but she is just as emotionally and intellectually mature than her classmates. I highly recommend pushing for acceleration for capable students. More…
Parent in Oregon