Word: giftedness
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While the presidential candidates talk of their plans, the real leadership is coming from the state level: from Governors, from local superintendents, from business people. In a spirit of enlightened self-interest, state officials equate better schools with healthier economies. Some 45 states have put together task forces to consider...
School districts have devised a variety of imaginative and promising strategies to challenge the unchallenged and to brighten the best. New York State is considering a proposal that would require foreign language proficiency by ninth grade. Tennessee has approved a program that will award "honors diplomas" to students who voluntarily...
Ever since Nureev defected while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet and began to be hailed there as a major star in his performances with the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet, balletomanes have dreamed of a Nureev-Fonteyn partnership. Nureev, 24, comes from a Ural peasant family, had danced with the...
The Carnegie Foundation also calls for federal funds and participation in setting up a network of residential math and science academies for gifted students and establishing a National Teacher Service that would provide scholarships for top students who want to become teachers themselves. Although President Reagan remains steadfast in his...
The youngsters' prank was feasible because most of the penetrated computers had been linked by GTE Telenet Inc., which provides access to computer systems in 325 U.S. cities and 50 nations. Ron Zeitz, Telenet's public affairs director, said that gifted amateurs do occasionally get into unclassified data...