Gifted and Talented Education

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Gifted Young Children: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
by Louise Porter. 271 pgs.

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A guide to identifying gifted children aged 0-8 years and helping them reach their potential.

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About the Author

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Part I: Understanding Giftedness

One: Signs of Gifted Development in Young Children

Two: Transforming Giftedness into Talent

Suggested Further Reading

Part II: Emotional Needs of Gifted Children

Three: Emotional Issues for Gifted Children

Four: Self-Esteem

Five: Social Needs

Six: Autonomy

Part III: Educational Provisions

Seven: A Rationale for Gifted Education

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Eight: Assessing Developmental Advances in Young Children

Nine: Meeting Gifted Young Children's Learning Needs

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Ten: Disadvantaged Gifted Children

Eleven: Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities

Twelve: Formulating a Policy About Gifted Learners

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Thirteen: Parenting Gifted Children

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Teaching and Counseling Gifted and Talented Adolescents: An International Learning Style Perspective
by Roberta M. Milgram, Rita M. Dunn, Gary E. Price. 285 pgs.

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The goal of this book is to provide teachers with the theoretical and practical information needed to meet the daily challenge of individualizing instruction for gifted and talented students with different learning styles in regular classrooms. These students spend most of their time in regular courses. Teachers and counselors often are urged to provide for the unique needs of each of these learners without being shown how such adolescents differ from each offer in their learning style traits. This is the first book devoted entirely to the topic, and it is based on a two-year study in many different nations.

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Preface

Part I: Learning Style and the Realization of Giftedness

Chapter 1: Learning Styles of Gifted Students in Diverse Cultures

Chapter 2: Identifying Learning Styles and Creativity in Gifted Learners: Subjects, Instrumentation, Administration, Reliability, Validity

Chapter 3: Teaching Gifted Adolescents through Their Learning Style Strengths

Chapter 4: Counseling Gifted Adolescents through Learning Style

Chapter 5: Giftedness, Creativity, and Learning Style: Exploring the Connections

Chapter 6: Reaching Creatively Gifted Students through Their Learning Styles

Part II: The Impact of Culture on Learning Style and Giftedness

Chapter 7: The Learning Styles of Gifted Adolescents in the United States

Chapter 8: The Learning Styles of Gifted Adolescents in Israel

Chapter 9: The Learning Styles of Gifted Adolescents in the Philippines

Chapter 10: The Learning Styles and Creative Performance Accomplishments of Adolescents in Guatemala

Chapter 11: The Learning Styles of Gifted Adolescents in Korea

Chapter 12: The Learning Styles of Artistically Talented Adolescents in Canada

Chapter 13: The Learning Styles of Creative Adolescents in Brazil

Chapter 14: The Learning Styles of Adolescents in Egypt

Chapter 15: The Learning Styles of Adolescents in Greece

Chapter 16: The Learning Styles of Gifted Adolescents around the World: Differences and Similarities

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Name Index

Subject Index

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Developing Creative Leadership
by Jeanette Plauché Parker, Lucy Gremillion Begnaud. 162 pgs.

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Part I: Perspectives on Leadership

Chapter One: What Is Leadership?

Chapter Two: Developing Gifted Leadership for the New Millennium

Chapter Three: Using the Leadership Training Model as a Foundation for Curriculum Planning

Chapter Four: Leadership Identification Scales

Part II: Academic Units

Chapter Five: Dreams of Greatness (Interdisciplinary; Adaptable to All Grades)

Chapter Six: Nursery "Mines," "Me"Sop Fables, and "For Real" Tales (Language Arts; Adaptable to All Grades)

Chapter Seven: The Art of Science (Science; Grades 6-9)

Chapter Eight: Talking Dogs, Singing Frogs, and Chocolate Cows

Chapter Nine: From Babe Ruth to Breadlines

Chapter Ten: Shakin' Up Shakespeare

Appendix One: The NASA Moon Survival Task

Appendix Two: The Leadership Training Model Unit Outline

Index

About the Authors
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Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (Includes discussion of gifted and talented education in multiple chapters)
by Ellen Winner. 452 pgs.

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Ellen Winner uncovers some of the misconceptions about children with special abilities, the emotions they provoke - like envy, fear and rejection - and shows us what these children are really like.

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One: Nine Myths About Giftedness

Two: Globally Gifted: The Children Behind the Myth

Three: Unevenly Gifted, Even Learning Disabled

Four: Artistic and Musical Children

Five: The IQ Myth

Six: Liæ the Biology of Giftedness

Seven: Giftedness and the Family

Eight: So Different from Others: The Emotional Life of the Gifted Child

Nine: Schools: How They Fail, How They Could Help

Ten: What Happens to Gifted Children When They Grow Up?

Eleven: Sorting Myth from Reality

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Knowledge and Power in the Global Economy: Politics and the Rhetoric of School Reform (Chap. 14 "Gifted Education")
by David A. Gabbard. 430 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

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Part I: Terms of Debate

1: Global Economy

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2: Crisis

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3: Choice

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4: Reform

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5: Leadership

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6: Accountability

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7: Discipline

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8: Classroom Management

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9: Learning

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10: Literacy

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11: Ideology

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12: Empowerment

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13: Inclusive Education

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14: Gifted Education

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15: Desegregation

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16: Race

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17: Class

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18: Gender

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Part II: Terms of Power/Knowledge

19: Curriculum

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20: Arts Education

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21: Language Arts Education

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22: Bilingual Education

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23: Cultural Literacy

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24: Multicultural Education

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25: Cultural Studies

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26: Social Studies Education

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27: Moral Education

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28: Service Learning

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29: Environmental Education

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30: Global Education

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31: Science Education

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32: Math Education

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33: Educational Computing

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34: Educational Technology

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35: Technological Literacy

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36: Media Literacy

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37: Vocational Education

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38: Adult and Continuing Education

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Part III: Terms of Resistance

39: Critical Pedagogy

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40: Postcolonialism

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41: Critical Race Theory

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42: Critical Feminist Pedagogy

43: Biocentric Education

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44: Situated Cognition

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45: Individualization

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46: Dialogue

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47: Public Franchise

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Beyond Tracking: Finding Success in Inclusive Schools (Chap. 11 "Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High-Ability Students" and Chap. 12 "Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting")
by Jane A. Page, Harbison Pool. 287 pgs.

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Beyond Tracking: Finding Success in Inclusive Schools

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Introduction

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Section I Should Tracking Be Abolished?

1: Why Ability Grouping Must End: Achieving Excellence and Equity in American Education

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2: Understanding Ourselves: The Ancestry of Tracking

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3: Conditions That Enhance the Reintegration of Schools

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4: Is It Possible to Live with Tracking and Ability Grouping?

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Section II Striving for Inclusiveness in Schools and Classrooms

5: More Than Meets the Eye: Links Between Tracking and the Culture of Schools

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6: Tracking and Its Effects on African-Americans in the Field of Education

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7: Holistic Education Leadership and the Tracking Controversy

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8: Beyond Tracking, What? Discursive Problems and Possibilities

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9: The Dilemma of Tracking and Grouping in Early Childhood and Middle Grades: Are We Speaking the Same Language?

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10: Ideas and Programs to Assist in the Untracking of American Schools

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Section III Strategies That Help Meet All Students' Needs

11: Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High-Ability Students

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12: Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting

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13: Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps Toward Long-Term Success

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14: In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach to Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low-Track Classes

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15: Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning

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16: Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction

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17: Improving All Students' Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies

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18: Integrating Diverse Learning Styles

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Section IV Untracking in the Real World

19: Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking Across the United States

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20: Creating a Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community

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21: Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story

22: Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At-Risk Youth

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23: Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level

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24: Tracking and Research-Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma

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25: A Call to Action: The Time Has Come to Move Beyond Tracking

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Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools (Chap. Two "Gifted Education and the Protection of Privilege: Breaking the Silence, Opening the Discourse")
by Michelle Fine, Lois Weis. 437 pgs.

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Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: Structuring Silence: Policies and Practice

Chapter One: Breaking through the Barriers: African American Job Candidates and the Academic Hiring Process

Chapter Two: Gifted Education and the Protection of Privilege: Breaking the Silence, Opening the Discourse

Chapter Three: Testing and Minorities

Chapter Four: Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: the Missing Discourse of Desire

Chapter Five: Empowering Minority Students: a Framework for Intervention

Chapter Six: The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children

Part Two: From the Margins to the Center: beyond Silenced Voices

Chapter Seven: Joining the Resistance: Psychology, Politics, Girls, and Women

Chapter Eight: Voices of Resistance: Young Women Readers of Romance Fiction

Chapter Nine: Disruptions: Improper Masculinities and Schooling

Chapter Ten: Choices, Not Closets: Heterosexism and Homophobia in Schools

Chapter Eleven: White Male Working-Class Youth: an Exploration of Relative Privilege and Loss

Chapter Twelve: Dropouts and the Silencing of Critical Voices

Chapter Thirteen: Resisting Racism: Personal Testimonies of African-American Teachers

Chapter Fourteen: Constructing Race at an Urban High School: in Their Minds, Their Mouths, Their Hearts

Chapter Fifteen: The College Experience of Native Americans: a Critical Analysis

Chapter Sixteen: Beyond the Poverty of Theory in Race Relations: Nonsynchrony and Social Difference in Education

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Contributors

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Accelerating the Learning of All Students: Cultivating Culture Change in Schools, Classrooms, and Individuals (Chap. 2 "Accelerate = Serving Gifted and Talented Students")
by Christine Finnan, Julie D. Swanson. 190 pgs.

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Foreword

Foreword: Equity Plus Excellence: A Very Possible Mission

Introduction

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1: The Multiple Meanings of Acceleration

2: Accelerate = Serving Gifted and Talented Students

3: Accelerate = Targeting Low-Achieving Students

4: Accelerate = Challenging All Students

5: Cultivating Culture Change to Acclerate the Learning of All Students

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6: Cultivating Acceleration Within School Cultures

7: Cultivating Acceleration Within Classroom Cultures

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8: Individuals as Cultivators: Actinu on Chanued Assumptions Within and Beyond the School

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Gifted Children, Their Psychology and Education
by Maurice F. Freehill. 412 pgs.

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Stewardship of the Gifted

Cultural and Attitudinal Problems in Education of the Gifted

Identification by Observation

Identification by Test

Genius, Talented or Gifted

The Nature of Giftedness and Its Processes

The Growth and Development. of Intelligence

Considerations of Learning and Teaching

Administrative Arrangements for Bright Children

Planning a Trial Program

Curriculum and Educational Methods for Gifted Children

Mathematics and Language Arts

Social Studies and Science

Parents and Teachers

Vocational Planning

Emotional and Character Development

Index of Subjects

Index of Names
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Guiding Creative Talent
by E. Paul Torrance. 278 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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Chapter 1: Causes For Concern

Chapter 2: Assessing The Creative Thinking Abilities

Chapter 3: The Minnesota Tests Of Creative Thinking

Chapter 4: Identifying The Creative Personality

Chapter 5: Creative Development

Chapter 6: Problems In Maintaining Creativity

Chapter 7: Problems When Creativity Is Repressed

Chapter 8: Goals For Guiding Creative Talent

Chapter 9: Relationships With Creative Talent

Chapter 10: Counselors, Teachers, And Administrators For Guiding Creative Talent

Appendix

Bibliography

Subject Index

Index
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Gifted Books, Gifted Readers: Literature Activities to Excite Young Minds
by Nancy J. Polette. 284 pgs.

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Chapter One: Literature for the Gifted: A Gateway to Greatness

Chapter Two: Picture Books for Gifted Programs

Chapter Three: Exercising the Imagination: Fairy Tales and Fantasy

Chapter Four: The Classics and Poetry

Chapter Five: Exploring Diversity

Chapter Six: Learning from the Past

Chapter Seven: Heroines and Heroes

Author/Title/Subject Index
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Exceptionally Gifted Children
by Miraca U. M. Gross. 310 pgs.

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Exceptionally Gifted Children is unique. The first edition of this book, published in 1993, introduced 15 remarkable children, some of the most gifted young people ever studied, and traced their path through school, exploring their academic achievements (and in some cases enforced underachievement), their emotional development, their social relationships and their family relationships and upbringing. This new edition reviews these early years but also follows the young people over the subsequent ten years into adulthood. No previous study has traced so closely and so sensitively the intellectual, social and emotional development of highly gifted young people. This 20 year study reveals the ongoing negative academic and social effects of prolonged underachievement and social isolation imposed on gifted children by inappropriate curriculum and class placement and shows clearly the long lasting benefits of thoughtfully planned individual educational programs. The young adults of this study speak out and show how what happened in school has influenced and still influences many aspects of their lives. Miraca Gross provides a clear, practical blueprint for teachers and parents who recognise the special learning needs of gifted children and seek to respond effectively.

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Chapter 1: The Scope of the Problem

Chapter 2: Gifted Education in Australia

Chapter 3: Methodology and Procedures of the Study

Chapter 4: Early Development and Physical Health

Chapter 5: Family Characteristics and Family History

Chapter 6: Academic Achievement Levels

Chapter 7: Reading Development and Recreational Interests

Chapter 8: School History

Chapter 9: Psychosocial Development

Chapter 10: Where Are They Now? 1993-2003

Chapter 11: The Exceptionally Gifted: Recognition and Response

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The Manifesto: A Guide to Developing a Creative Career
by E. Paul Torrance. 137 pgs.

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More than 40 years ago, E. Paul Torrance undertook to study creativity in students and study whether it would predict their creative achievements as adults. He and his colleagues wanted to determine what other factors influence, predict, encourage or sustain their creativity over time. There has never been a longitudinal study of creativity of this magnitude. The findings described here will be useful to, and have implications for, parents, teachers, counselors, instructors, and educational administrators.

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Preface

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1: The Origin of the Manifesto

2: Background and Overview

3: Procedures and Subjects of the Forty-Year Study

4: Major Statistical Results: Prediction of Publicly Recognized Creative Achievements

5: Falling in Love with Your Work

6: Learning to Know Your Greatest Strengths

7: Expectations and Playing Your Own Game

8: Being Well-Rounded

9: Loving the Work You Do

10: Learning the Skills of Interdependence and Sharing Your Infinite Creativity

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The Role of Advanced Placement in Talent Development, in Journal of Secondary Gifted Education
by Joyce VanTassel-Baska. 7 pgs.

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Education of the Intellectually Gifted (1965)
by Milton J. Gold. 472 pgs.

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1: The Release of Human Potential

2: Characteristics of Gifted Children

3: Intelligence and Intelligence Testing

4: Identification of Exceptional Ability

5: Creativity as an Aspect of Giftedness

6: Planning Programs for Gifted Students

7: Patterns in Education of the Gifted

8: Thinking

9: Language Arts for the Gifted Student

10: Social Studies and Social Education

11: Science and Mathematics for the Gifted

12: The Fine Arts

13: Ability Grouping

14: Acceleration

15: Guidance

16: Motivation and Underachievement

17: Teachers for Gifted Children

18: Research: Endeavors and Opportunities

Bibliography

Index
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Education of the Gifted (1950)
by Educational Policies Commission. 92 pgs.

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Chapter I: The Role of the Gifted in American Democracy

Chapter II: Waste of Talent in American Life

Chapter III: Identification of the Gifted

Chapter IV: Education of the Gifted

Chapter V: Investment in Talent

Chapter VI: Summary

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