Welcome New Bloggers: Light Year Kids
Parent advocacy group working toward improving Advanced Academic Program Centers in the county.
Today we get to welcome another new blogger to the Oakton Patch family: The Light Year Kids. Parent Asra Nomani, who posted the group's first blog, writes: Light Year Kids is an effort to support the education of "light year kids," who are "light years" ahead of their age level academically. Our local incarnation is as: Parents for AAP Center Excellence (PACE). Traditionally known as "gifted and talented" children, it's little discussed how these kids are, in fact, "special needs" children because their academic and intellectual acumen often doesn't get addressed in mainstream classrooms. Nomani, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, lives in Great Falls, Va. Her son, Shibli, 10, is in fourth grade at Great Falls Elementary …
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