Dr. Jonathan Plucker

By Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D. December 07, 2016 If you have any friends concerned with gifted education—or educational excellence in general—you saw them doing cartwheels last week, and for good reason: The final Every Student Succeeds Act accountability regulations were released, Read More …

  When (and how) should gifted education teachers apply general teaching principles vs specialized instruction in their gifted education classrooms?  In what circumstances are gifted learners like all others in classrooms around the world and when are they uniquely different?  Read More …

Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D.  (February 01, 2018) The new Fordham Institute report, Is There a Gifted Gap?, gave me a lot of food for thought this week. Let’s start with some important positives: Although gifted education research is in many ways Read More …

by Jonathan Plucker and Scott J. Peters on January 9,2017 Katie and Susan are both precocious nine year-olds attending the same elementary school. Both have grown up in the same town, and both are considered proficient according to grade-level standards. Read More …

As I travel the country, working with educators and policymakers on narrowing gaps in advanced performance among groups of students (“excellence gaps”), I’m usually struck by two themes, one encouraging and the other worrisome. On the positive side, people are Read More …

Draft ESSA regulations: A mixed bag for educational excellence Jonathan Plucker, Ph.D. Brandon L. Wright April 11, 2016 The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires a “negotiated rulemaking” process whenever the Department of Education issues regulations under parts of the Read More …