Advancing Minority Gifted Identification: Evidence From a Randomized Trial of Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow

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Abstract

This paper reports preliminary results from a randomized controlled trial of a multi-component nurturing program designed to increase gifted identification among minority students. In 2014-15, the Wake County Public School System, in partnership with Duke University, implemented Nurturing for a Bright Tomorrow in response to chronically-low gifted identification among minority students in two-thirds of the district’s elementary schools. Preliminary results suggest that the program is having a modest positive impact on a key measure of gifted identification, the odds that students in the treatment group may ultimately qualify for gifted status, and school-level gifted counts. We will report the final results of this three-year RCT when the first cohort of Nurturing students is assessed for gifted education in fall 2017.

Authors

• Angel L Harris, Duke University

• Darryl Vernois Hill, Fulton County Schools

• Matthew A Lenard, Wake County Public School System