Can whiz kid dropouts make it in the tech world? - 0 views
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Some folks in Silicon Valley and elsewhere say a conventional education can't possibly give kids with outsize talents what they need. Others, like Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who teaches and advises startup companies, say dropping out to pursue a dream is like "buying a lottery ticket — that's how good your odds are here. More likely than not, you will become unemployed. For every success, there are 100,000 failures."
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What can we do about those students who are considering dropping out because their knowledge and abilities are far beyond what their high school curriculum can offer?
