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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 04 March 2011 09:28:26PM 3 points [-]

Not just the atmosphere-- the skill with which the gifted program is designed.

And some gifted programs are worse than what you imagined-- they just pile busywork on the students.

Developing good gifted programs is a hard (or if you prefer, complex) problem. I'd start by surveyed students and graduates from gifted programs about the their take on the value of various parts of the programs.