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Share Your School’s Acceleration Policy Successes

What good news about acceleration is coming out of your school? How has your school made acceleration work? Is your school currently writing an acceleration policy? Does your school have an existing acceleration policy that you want to share? What tips do you have for making sure that the policy is effectively implemented?

Email your ideas to Maureen Marron (maureen-marron@uiowa.edu).

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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