For Parents of Gifted Children
Advanced Placement (AP) courses and tests offer college level material to students while they are still in high school. The 37 AP courses currently offered prepare students to take a standardized test of the knowledge and skills acquired in...
College Planning Issue 2 / Winter 2010 Makel, Matthew C. Model Program/Schools
The National Center for Educational Statistics estimates that over 1.5 million children were homeschooled in 2007, nearly double the number from a decade earlier. This means that homeschoolers account for roughly one out of every fifty K-12 students in...
Makel, Matthew C. Model Program/Schools Special Issue / Fall 2009
The litany of secondary reform efforts grows longer every year. Looking just at the past decade, we have seen efforts that seem at odds with each other: a rise in career preparation as well as college readiness; a move to...
Educational Strategies Volume 8 / Issue 4 / Summer 2008 Pierson Yecke, Cheri
Here’s a riddle for you. What do these people all have in common? Nancy Pelosi (D-California), first woman Speaker of the House Dr. Sally Ride , first American woman to fly in space Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) Senator Olympia...
Educational Strategies Volume 7 / Issue 4 / Summer 2007 Sax, Leonard
The desire to provide optimal and appropriate educational challenges has prompted many parents to consider homeschooling their gifted children. Parents routinely supplement their children’s formal education. However, the choice to withdraw them from the traditional classroom for all or part...
Boone, Sarah Educational Strategies Volume 7 / Issue 1 / Fall 2006 Parenting/Advocacy
In 1980 North Carolina opened the first state-supported residential high school, and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics soon became the model for other states. Education leaders realized that such schools could provide innovative learning experiences in a...
Volume 6 / Issue 4 / Summer 2006 Model Program/Schools Stamps, Lisa
Imagine public education back in 1910: a single teacher in a one-room schoolhouse lit with candles and students working on slate boards with chalk. Fast-forward to 2010, an age so dependent on advanced technology that students take some classes online,...
Volume 6 / Issue 3 / Spring 2006 Model Program/Schools Special Issue / Fall 2009 Technology Young, Julie
In the simplest terms, magnet means “something that attracts.” This is indeed the concept behind the nation’s magnet schools. To the students who attend magnet schools and their families, the term takes on a deeper meaning: choice in the...
Volume 6 / Issue 2 / Winter 2006 Model Program/Schools Thompson, Lisa
Ned’s parents found themselves begging for greater challenges for their son from a school that prided itself on its “challenging curriculum.” It set a pace six months faster than other schools, but Ned’s abilities went years beyond that. They decided...
Educational Strategies Hassel, Bryan Hassel, Emily Ayscue Volume 6 / Issue 1 / Fall 2005 Parenting/Advocacy