Are gifted children left behind in United States?

 They are bored—so much so that they may not pay attention in class or will act out in frustration. Some make poor grades, either because they no longer care or because they have spent so many of their younger years unchallenged that when they suddenly face a rigorous course in middle or high school, they don’t know how to study.

They are the nation’s gifted children, those with abilities beyond other children their age. Too many of their abilities, advocates argue, remain untapped by U.S. schools that don’t serve them as they focus instead on lifting low-achieving students to meet the goals of the federal No Child Left Behind law. Read about the problem in Delaware, one of six states that neither mandates gifted instruction nor provides gifted education funding. Go to delawareonline.com.