Word: giftedness
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IN A school system geared primarily toward accomodating the status quo, academically gifted children have always been a thorn in the side of educational policy makers. If educators support funding for academic programs tailored to gifted students, they perpetuate the unjustified, though in most cases understandable, stigma of elitism surrounding...
In 1971, educational researchers decided to take action. Under the auspices of John Hopkins psychologist, started up the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an organization aimed at identifying mathematically gifted students. Since then, Duke, Northwestern. Arizona State, and the University of Denver have organized talent searches modeled after the CTY...
A change in College Board policy barring certain age groups from the exam might be an effective deterrent to a surge of teenage graduate students, but such procedural remedies skin the larger issue of how to stimulate gifted minds. Opposition to programs like CTY is not the same as opposition...
WHAT is really needed are programs that will successfully motivate and challenge students at the junior high and high school levels. If Johns Hopkins and other institutions of higher learning like Harvard are truly interested in fostering excellence, they must appropriate their funds where they will do the most good...
THE MOST distressing example is the annual flock to law school, which lures some of the country's best young minds and sends them out into one of the economy's least efficient and least productive sectors. President Bok best described the brain drain in his most recent annual report...