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 Canada. Some have living quarters (dormitory, dining room) where students reside (known as boarding schools); most are day schools, and some boarding schools also admit local students who seek the benefits of the prep school life. Some admit students of only one sex; others are co-educational. Prep schools are selective, academically challenging, and largely independent of state and local control. Yet, such controls, the primary, defining characteristics of public, government-operated (elementary and secondary) schools, have contributed to the private support, and growth, of prep schools, because said controls are viewed by prep school proponents as an unacceptable burden on schooling, education, and eventual university matriculation

Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. Programs providing such education are sometimes called Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) or Talented and Gifted (TAG) programs. Youths are sometimes identified as gifted by placing highly on certain standardized tests, although sole reliance on this method is often inappropriate, and educators are shifting towards broader means of identification. In order to preclude tracking or gate keeping, programs of gifted education often use student interest, parental request, and teacher recommendations as additional criteria for entry.

Gifted programs are often cut when budgets are tight, partly because they are seen as a luxury, which suggests that they continue to have marginal political support in many communities. The history of gifted education in the US, however, shows continued support from national policy makers since the mid-twentieth century.

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