Word: giftedness
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I am distrubed the the implication that the needs of the highly gifted can be met by merely moving them up three grades. A 9-year-old, for example, might very well attend middle school. Bright kids have social and emotional as well as intellectual needs, and such a plan...
It's not just the highly gifted who are forgotten. There are bright children who don't learn study habits when they're young because they have no need for them. When a child scores perfectly on tests, how does one instill the need for hard work and study skills...
Parents of gifted children must accept responsibility for meeting their children's needs. Home-schooled students stay with their families and communities; they choose friends and activities according to their personalities and interests and learn at their own pace. Many home-schooled children begin taking community-college courses in their...
As the mother of an 11-year-old boy with a Mensa-level IQ and photographic memory, I have pushed for grade skipping and spent hours meeting with school officials to champion gifted-child programs in a long struggle to educate my son in a school that challenges him. TIME...
Re your article about "a new model for gifted education" [Aug. 27]: I am a student of the Early Entrance Program (EEP) at California State University, Los Angeles, which takes grade skipping to its extreme by allowing young students early entrance to college. Students here begin taking full-time college...