For Parents of Gifted Children
Most preschool children would benefit from the innovative curriculum at University Primary School, but it caters primarily to those three- to five-year-olds who are gifted. Located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Champaign, the private primary...
Volume 3 / Issue 4 / Summer 2003 Ludwig, Susan Model Program/Schools Young Gifted
It is likely that a third-grade math scholar at Hunter College Elementary School can deftly calculate a student’s odds of gaining entry to New York City’s prestigious school for the gifted. Even a younger student could offer the advice that...
Volume 3 / Issue 3 / Spring 2003 Ludwig, Susan Model Program/Schools
Sixty years ago Dr. Annemarie Roeper and her husband, George, were visionaries in the field of gifted education. As they fled Nazi Germany, they formulated a plan for a school designed to ensure that gifted minds accomplished only positive things....
Volume 3 / Issue 2 / Winter 2003 Ludwig, Susan Model Program/Schools
The motto of Hathaway Brown, Ohio’s oldest and most prestigious college preparatory girls’ school, is “We learn not for school but for life.” Nowhere is that motto more closely observed than in the school’s innovative Student Research Program. At...
Boone, Sarah Volume 3 / Issue 1 / Fall 2002 Model Program/Schools
While reading the Little House on the Prairie series to my children, I have learned that in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s day students were obliged to demonstrate to the entire community their mastery of their subjects: history, geography, math, and...
Bonner, Jay Volume 2 / Issue 4 / Summer 2002 Model Program/Schools
Perhaps only the parents of highly gifted children can attest to the frustrations of educating them. These students learn at a radically different speed from their age-level counterparts (one and a half to four academic years’ growth in one...
Volume 2 / Issue 3 / Spring 2002 Ludwig, Susan Model Program/Schools
Gifted students approach their final years of high school eagerly anticipating the opportunity to take college-level courses. At 60 percent of our nation’s secondary schools, this opportunity is offered in the form of Advanced Placement courses. However, a growing number...
Brown, Teri Cooper Volume 2 / Issue 2 / Winter 2002 Model Program/Schools
Summer programs for academically gifted students have proliferated in the last decade, largely because efficient and widespread identification services are available through regional talent search programs. Universities and colleges sponsor most summer programs. Given the myriad opportunities, parents may wonder...
Volume 2 / Issue 1 / Fall 2001 Model Program/Schools Olszewski-Kubilius, Paula
Many private schools concentrate on the needs of academically advanced students, but it is difficult to find a public school that does. Pine View School in Osprey, Florida, a public school designed to meet the needs of gifted students,...
Volume 1 / Issue 4 / Summer 2001 Lance, G. Denise Model Program/Schools
A rigorous admissions process, instruction in attitudes and skills needed to do well in college, and a close-knit community of like-minded peers ensure the success of young students who attend the University of Washington’s (UW) Transition School and Early Entrance...
Collins-Perry, Bobbie Volume 1 / Issue 3 / Spring 2001 Model Program/Schools
Admission to the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM) has been coveted by the state’s academically talented students since the school’s inception in 1980. Last year 667 rising sophomores applied and 276 were accepted for admission to the...
Volume 1 / Issue 2 / Winter 2001 Ludwig, Susan Model Program/Schools
Whether it’s English or mathematics, at Phillips Exeter Academy we call all of our classes Harkness classes and our teachers Harkness teachers. Harkness identifies a table you will find at the center of every class, both literally and figuratively. Harkness...
Volume 1 / Issue 1 / Fall 2000 Model Program/Schools Tingley, Tyler C.