Should Millions of Students Take a Gap Year? Large Numbers of Students Start the School Year Above Grade Level

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 229-238

  Peters, Scott J ^a   Rambo Hernandez, Karen ^b   Makel, Matthew C ^c   Matthews, Michael S ^d   Plucker, Jonathan A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement; age developmental stage; differentiation; diversity; grouping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021080729     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: 19349041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986217701834     Document Type: Article

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