Exploring Passion, Creativity, and Intelligence
Recent research at Griffith University has found that personality is more important than intelligence when it comes to success in education. Dr. Arthur Poropat from Griffith’s School of Applied Psychology has conducted the largest ever reviews of personality and academic Read More …
How do you support the needs of exceptional students across the largest city in US? The Gifted and Talented programs are one way the NYC Department of Education aims to do so. Each year families gear up for these assessments Read More …
Washington, DC—NEA Senior Deputy Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced this past week that 1,083 grants totaling $25.8 million will be awarded to organizations and individuals across the country for grants in the categories of Art Works, Challenge America, and Creative Writing Read More …
It began simply with one parent’s question about her academically gifted child’s education and blossomed into the formation of Guilford County PAGE, an affiliate of the North Carolina Association for the Gifted and Talented (NCAGT). Today, Guilford County PAGE, which Read More …
Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the noted civil rights champion of the United States, stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and addressed a crowd of 250,000 civil rights supporters. At the Read More …
The long-held, common belief among theorists in the gifted arena is that a small percentage of the human population is born with a genetic potential for exceling in specific areas of human endeavors, such as art or science. The aim Read More …
A bipartisan bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives shifts the education debate in Washington, D.C., towards a focus on gifted, high-ability students—particularly those from low-income or minority backgrounds—who have been overshadowed in a federal educational system Read More …
Advanced learners. They’re the ones who breeze through class and find themselves bored, or the young writers who compose complex sentences using advanced vocabulary. According to the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), there are an estimated three million academically Read More …
The successful strategies used by six urban school systems across the country to boost African-American student participation in and performance on Advanced Placement tests are detailed in a new report released today by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. The Read More …
The New Zealand Association for Gifted Children, which represents gifted children and their families, has launched an awareness campaign to ensure that children who are highly gifted do not receive an inappropriate diagnosis of mental disorder. The New Zealand campaign Read More …