Word: louise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CBS's upcoming specialties will be topped by Rodgers and Hammerstein's first TV original: a 90-minute musicollaboration on Cinderella, starring Julie (My Fair Lady) Andrews. Ford Star Jubilee will hire Cole Porter. Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae. Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores Gray. George Sanders. Louis Armstrong to salute...
The problem haunting St. Louis school officials was unfortunately familiar to urban school systems the country over: What to do with gifted students? Bogged down in large classes and forced to move at a slow learner's pace, they were wasting both their time and their talents.
St. Louis' answer, described last week by officials at an opening-of-school conference, could well provide a pattern for harried administrators attempting to cope with the problem in other cities and towns.
Sixth to Ninth. Without clear precedents to guide them, St. Louis educators arbitrarily set an IQ of 130 (very superior) as the dividing line between the average and the gifted student. Candidates for the special classes were identified by means of IQ tests given to all children in fourth grade...
Although St. Louis started testing for gifted students three years ago, only one batch of 250 gifted sixth-graders (out of the 7,000 or so youngsters who reach sixth grade each year) has been exposed to the advanced program so far. How has it affected them? In natural sciences...