ABSTRACT
Enrichment can play an important role in a program of advanced academics. Enrichment programs typically are easier to set up within schools because they do not require the same degree of planning and coordination across grade levels that acceleration programs often require. Every student should be entitled to an enriched curriculum. Most students would prefer to be engaged, interested, and respected as intelligent and autonomous learners in their educational experiences. Many enrichment programs are designed to be much more engaging, interesting, and respectful of students as autonomous learners than the standard curricula. The school selects the concept of "signal to noise" as the organizing principle for the enrichment program, recognizing that this idea is central to many aspects of physical science, medicine, engineering, and even social science. Enrichment programming typically has a much lower potential for risk than acceleration does.
