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Rambo, Karen E.; McCoach, D. Betsy – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2012
Despite the research supporting acceleration, some teachers are still hesitant to recommend acceleration for advanced students. The Teacher Attitudes Toward Subject-Specific Acceleration (TATSSA) instrument was designed to uncover the factors that influence teacher decisions to recommend students for subject-specific acceleration. First, we…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Academically Gifted, Advanced Students, Gifted
Murray, Charles – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2007
In January, W. H. Brady Scholar Charles Murray stepped back from current education debates about reauthorization of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act and education funding in the president's budget to ask more fundamental questions about the goals that should shape American education in the future. This "On the Issues" is adapted from…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Intelligence, Intelligence Differences, Intellectual Development
Shere, Waris, Ed.; Duhamel, Ronald, Ed. – 1987
Present trends and future directions in postsecondary education in Canada and the United States are addressed in 15 essays and an introduction by Ron Duhamel. Authors and titles are as follows: "Traditional Values in the Contemporary University" (Robin H. Farquhar); "Facing the Future" (R. J. Duhamel); "Challenges to the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, College Curriculum, College Faculty