Gifted Education

Helping Kids Whose "Brains Are on Fire"

Tom Allon | Posted 05.26.2012

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Tom Allon

The minds we waste each day in substandard public education could be the next Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Our children can't wait.

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Who Is Currently Identified as Gifted in the United States?

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 03.06.2012

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Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Hopefully ten years from now, there will be greater changes in gifted education than there have been in the past ten years.

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Why Passion Is a Gift

Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grit, Passion, Commitment, Gifted Education, Angela Duckworth, K. Anders Ericsson, Giftedness, Kimberly Robertson, Joseph Renzulli, Lewis Terman, Genius, Herbert A. Simon, Howard Gardner, Marland Report, Sir Ken Robinson, Interest, Francoys Gagne, Robert J. Sternberg, Education News
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.

Why don't we view passion and interest as gifts?

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Why Aren't our Schools Encouraging our Kids to Reach for the Stars Anymore?

Sue Peters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Standardized Testing, (Washington Association of Educators of the Talented and Gifted, Seattle Public Schools, Michael Clay Thompson, Gifted Education, Achievement Gap, Education News
Sue Peters

Our children will develop according to what we feed them. Let's give all of them the richest soil, fertilize their minds, spirits and imaginations, water them abundantly.

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