Grade Skipping - Cost-effectiveness

Cost-effectiveness

As described in A Nation Deceived, grade skipping is one of the most cost-effective ways of addressing the needs of a profoundly gifted student, as it requires very little more than assigning the child to a different classroom, without the expense of special materials, tutoring or separate programs. The cost of educating the gifted child in a regular classroom with typical, same-age peers is the same as the cost of educating that child in a regular classroom with typical, somewhat older students, so using grade skipping is essentially cost-free.