Comment by zozbot123

The whole point of "special education" is that it does things that don't scale to everyone (so it involves guessing who's going to get the most benefit from it, and these are the students you regard as "gifted"-- although in practice commitment and "grit" are a lot more important than supposed aptitude). Individualized teaching for each student, with a "mastery learning" model (i.e. no fixed time-based curriculum; you keep working near your current level in any given subfield until you achieve mastery at that level, then move on) is what gives the best results, but it can only be achieved practically via computer assistance.