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12. That dealt with GT testing.

In many states GT high-schoolers are channeled into AP courses, but it's neither required nor restricted to them.

I'm not aware of any testing required for AP courses. Counselors do the screening, based on prior coursework and grades.


The main problem with the NBER report was it highlighted inequalities, but not so much with causation. Or the fact that the levels of GT kids in some groups is pretty much impossible. Yet that's the standard. (The problem is that many parents push and for political reasons--community relations, school AYP/report cards, etc.--the numbers of GT kids are inflated.)