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What's needed is a new model for gifted education, an urgent sense that prodigious intellectual talents are a threatened resource. That's the idea behind the Davidson Academy of Nevada, in Reno, which was founded by a wealthy couple, Janice and Robert Davidson, but chartered by the state legislature as a public, tuition-free school. The academy will begin its second year Aug. 27, and while it will have just 45 students, they are 45 of the nation's smartest children. They are kids from age 11 to 16 who are taking classes at least three years beyond their...
People often wonder how to tell if their child is gifted. Truly gifted kids are almost always autodidacts. Take Max Oswald-Selis. He moved to Reno from Sydney with his mother Gael Oswald so that he could attend Davidson. Max is 12. The first time I saw him at the academy, he was reading an article about the Supreme Court. He likes to fence. He loves Latin because "it's a very regimented language ... There's probably at least 28 different endings for any given verb, because there's first-, second- and third-person singular and plural for each tense...
...What other career would you have had had you not gone into acting? -Stacey Fuentes in Reno, NevadaI once played a short-order cook in a movie called Frankie and Johnny. If I had to do anything it would be a short-order cook. The one thing I would never do is being a moving man because I did it and moving furniture from house to house is tough stuff. That I would never...
...Which of the characters you have portrayed is closest to your own personality, and why? -Pete Allen, Reno NV Fletch. When it comes to entertaining and being funny and annoying that's why you are there. That's who I am and how I normally behave...
...When can we expect a challenge between you and Tiger for a blindfolded putting contest? -Cody Salinas, Reno...