Word: giftedness
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“Joey Hanzich did so much with his life; he would have done so much more,” Koh said in the letter. “He was a gifted and wonderful young man. How privileged we were to have him with us, even for such a...
"Joey Hanzich did so much with his life; he would have done so much more,” Koh wrote. “He was a gifted and wonderful young man. How privileged we were to have him with us, even for such a short time."
...neutral, language-free assessment that requires no reading, writing or speaking. The result? The number of first-graders screened for gifted placement shot up from some 100 the previous year to nearly 3,000. Says deputy superintendent Antoinette Dunbar of the decision to start testing every first-grader for giftedness: "Sometimes we overlook the very obvious...
Across the country, universities with vastly smaller endowments are actively extending themselves beyond traditional boundaries to solve old problems in new ways. Examples include Clark’s University Park Campus School, the Academy of Math & Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, and Stanford?...
Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are. For them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so supercool, it's chilly. In his elaborate visual construct, virtually every shot is...