This is an interesting idea and one I hadn’t considered.
It’s a tough one to test empirically, of course, since it would involve taking gifted children and sending half of them to personal tutors and enriching experiences and the other half to, well, “regular” school.
I would guess that there are cohorts of kids across states or districts with different offerings of things like AP classes that could be matched on standardized test and SES scores.
It’s a tough one to test empirically, of course, since it would involve taking gifted children and sending half of them to personal tutors and enriching experiences and the other half to, well, “regular” school.