Renzulli's triad: School to work for gifted students

From the authors' perspective, Renzulli's definition, whether misinterprete d to require a composite of traits-more interesting than the interpretation Renzulli iterates-or used as Renzulli intended, to justify more inclusive programs, relies on a dubious rationale for gifted education: to select and nurture society's finest problem solvers. His emphasis on enrichment milit ates against systematic accelerated study in academics and the arts. Taken together, Renzulli's definition and intervention constitute a politically c onservative, product-oriented approach to education that is more Likely to reinforce social inequities of the current political economy than to equali ze educational opportunity.