As a teacher, do you know your state’s acceleration options for students? If you don’t, you’re not alone. In my experience, in the state of Florida, for instance, few parents and, even teachers, were aware that a law exists to provide acceleration options to advanced students grades k-12 in public schools. The little-known, relatively unadvertised policy, passed in 2012, only seemed known to a few, savvy parents at the school where I worked as a teacher of the gifted.

However, the...

“Play-based activities and child-centric learning are critical to the success of the Second Chance program and to the program’s ability to cover three years of curriculum in just ten months.”  – Caitlin Baron

To address the challenge of out-of-school children around the world (263 million according to ...