European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 12, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Students demise of tracking concept stories by Dave Walczak education writer. Debate Over talented and gilled education in Public schools spans More than two decades. It until the Early 1970s, gifted students were usually grouped by ability and provided special cows work or classes. Students lasted in elementary grades often were labelled talented or not talented and Kepi their identification throughout their schooling. Critics called this tracking approach elitist. They said it benefited top students identified Only by intelligence and achievement tests but excluded the majority Many of whom were minorities. The demise or the tracking concept brought about what rubs Mcclain principal of Garmisch elementary school described As a period where everybody was trying to do Ihler own  there were Magnet schools selective placement he said. But if there s an accusation that we weren t doing enough for gilled kids at hat time then we weren t doing enough for special education students  the Federal government entered the debate in 1969. Former sen. Jacob Jauhs of new York spearheaded an Effort that resulted in the passage of the gifted and talented children s education assistance act. The act gave gifted education priority in several federally funded education programs but it was t until 1974 that the government appropriated $2.5 million to help local school districts augment programs Lor tag youths. Javits continued to press Lor More Federal Revenue and guided the passage of Public Law 96-561 in 1978, which reinforced the need Tor talented and gifted programs. Mike Shelley who directs the 78 tag specialists in the Dodds Germany Region said the Law left Many questions about gifted and talented education unanswered. Schools Are required to provide programs for students who Are classified As gifted. That s All the Law says. The Law was not funded. Parents do not have due process rights. It s not like special education where parents can go to court and expect to  by 1980, the squabble Over talented and gilled education focused on numbers leading to theories that Only 2 percent to 5 percent of students were really talented and gifted thai s not a particularly successful concept said Dean Wiles chief of the Germany Region s education division. You d have parents coming into principals offices arguing about one tenth of a Point trying to get their kids into a program. In the late 70s and Early 80s, there was a smorgasbord of models. There were some schools that were using the Renzulli Model. The Pacific Region was doing something else. The resources we had to apply to any Model were  gripping an elementary principal Sieve Martin recalled his experiences from 1960 to 1932, when he was one of a handful of tag specialists in the Dodds Jennifer Wood to Kitchen Plant part efava�6v0n