“The talent is out there — all that needs to be done is to find and nurture it,” urged Stephanie Bell-Rose, president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. The foundation was cited by several speakers as a leading supporter of initiatives designed to identify and educate talented minority students.
Dr. Edmund Gordon, a renowned senior scholar at Teachers College of Columbia University, said he’s encouraged by the growth of programs that identify and nurture talented minorities. He cautioned, however, that such programs tend to save a few kids while poor public education condemns vast numbers of children from socially and economically disadvantaged communities to lives of virtually no social mobility.
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