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What gifted means hasn't always been clear. Older definitions, for instance, wrongly exclude the artistically talented. But most experts define the term as the top 3% to 5% of scorers on IQ and other standardized tests. For the smartest of these kids, those who quickly overpower schoolwork that flummoxes peers, skipping a grade isn't about showing off. Rather, according to a new report from the University of Iowa, it can mean the difference between staying in school and dropping out from sheer tedium. "If the work is not challenging for these high-ability kids, they will become invisible...
...Nation Deceived authors, longtime academic investigators not known as partisans in the education wars, have amassed persuasive evidence showing that, for decades, accelerated students have performed almost as well on standardized tests as older classmates, even those with similar IQs--meaning that an accelerated 7year-old with an IQ of 133 typically scores nearly as well as on the same test as a 133IQ 8year-old who has had an extra year of school. Accelerants far outscore their equally gifted age-mates who did not move ahead. Radical accelerants also do well, even after jumping years of classes: a 20year...
...that five-sixths of the Dream Team is missing. And where Joey does change, it's abruptly and implausibly. When he was funny on Friends, it was usually unintentionally. He still is, but when the writers need someone to deliver a Chandler-style zinger, they just lend Joey 50 IQ points for five seconds. When Gina, visiting Joey's TV taping, is mistaken (to her delight) for an actress, he cracks, "That's because you've got big fake boobs and you're crazy...
...great writer. He lacks the intoxicating, Dionysian power of Salman Rushdie at his best, and the craftsmanship of Rohinton Mistry?his only real co-passengers in the first-class cabin of Indian novelists?but he can do what they can't: leave you feeling two or three IQ points smarter by the end of one of his novels. And with his passion for subjects like marine biology, Ghosh remains his nation's best hope when it comes to getting tens of thousands of fiction-glutted Indians to read something mind broadening. The next announcement by Amitav Ghosh that...
Cynics will say: there's nothing new under the screen. As the temperatures drop outside, though, the cinematic IQ rises. It's too late for the muscle-bound blockbusters, too early for Christmas piety but just the right time for filmmakers' innovation and impudence. Here are four films that are trespassing on virgin soil...