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Gifted-education
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Profiling Serial Creators
Every single day, all across the globe, extraordinarily creative and talented students sit in our classrooms bored out of their minds.
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Three Reasons Why Americans Ignore Gifted Children
Chester E. Finn Jr. of The Fordham Institute recently wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times titled "Young, Gifted, and Neglected." But why do many Americans neglect gifted children? In this article, I explore some potential reasons.
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Teach Students What They Don’t Know But Are Ready To Learn
What should the goals of gifted education be?
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Response to Borland: In Defense of Eminence as An Outcome of Gifted Education
Paula Kubilius, Rena Subotnik, and Frank Worrell respond to Jim Borland's post about their recent monograph, "Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education: A Proposed Direction Forward Based on Psychological Research" in Psychological Science.
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A Landmark Monograph in Gifted Education, and Why I Disagree with Its Major Conclusion
In 2011, Subotnik, Olszewski-Kubilius, and Worrell published a landmark monograph that should be read by anyone interested in gifted education. However, I find their belief that the field ought to be devoted to encouraging eminence troubling.
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Problematizing Gifted Education, Part III: Gifted Education without Gifted Programs
Gifted education does not necessarily require, and its effectiveness may be hindered by, gifted programs, especially part-time pull-out enrichment programs.
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Problematizing Gifted Education, Part II: Why Do We Exist as a Field?
Misconceptions about the reason the field of gifted education exists are common. The field's goal should not be conceived of as the creation and preservation of gifted programs.
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Problematizing Gifted Education, Part I: Why Problematize?
Gifted education, as it exists in this country today, is fundamentally and fatally flawed in conception and in practice.
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A Polymath Physicist On Richard Feynman’s “Low” IQ And Finding Another Einstein
A conversation with Steve Hsu, a modern day polymath, on physics and Richard Feynman's supposedly "low" IQ to intelligence, gifted education, and whether we will find another Einstein.
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Who Is Currently Identified as Gifted in the United States?
A recent national survey of state policies and practices reveals how the United States defines giftedness, identifies giftedness, and accommodates gifted minority students.
