ACADEMIC ACCELERATION: A POLICY ADVOCACY DOCUMENT

<p>The purpose of this advocacy document, written in 2013, is to illustrate the need for a change in policy for gifted students in a suburban school district. The recommended policy change would allow academic acceleration in the form of whole-grade acceleration and/or subject-area acceleration for gifted students. This advocacy document includes a review of the literature related to acceleration and gifted students and an analysis of the educational, economic, social, political, moral, and ethical need for the policy change. Also included is a review of current practices in this district as well as the positive and negative aspects of acceleration. Implementation and assessment plans are also described.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Education (EdD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educational Leadership

Year dc:date.available

2013

Author dc:creator

• Neylon, Kelly

• Acceleration
• Gifted students
• Whole-grade acceleration
• Content-area acceleration
• Educational Leadership

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.nl.edu/pa/2

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.nl.edu:pa-1001