Does acceleration work?

Acceleration optimizes the challenges whereas enrichment spreads students sideways. There is no reason not to consider acceleration (master schedule building and other logistic problems are often blamed). Researchers have found that accelerated students surpass the performance of non-accelerated students of an equivalent age and intelligence by nearly one grade level. They have also found that accelerated students did just as well as the bright students in the grades into which they were moved and that the accelerated students generally had higher educational ambitions. Of importance is the finding that there are usually no negative social effects for accelerated students - especially if they are chosen well.