Discusses the rationale and validity for talent searches, with special emphasis on the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP). Describes the Precollege and Summer Educational Programs and notes typical results. Discusses the by-mail program and the efforts by TIP to serve as a resource to schools as they develop their own programs.…

Criticism has been made of continuing to increase expenditures of funds to assist the economically disadvantaged and the handicapped. Past decades have seen discrimination against "gifted" children due to a fear of creating an "elite." Recent federal funding has begun to create special programs for gifted children. (JN)

Examines elements of gifted child education, including the process of identifying gifted students, implications for gifted education, and possible outcomes of labeling students. Emphasizes that some gifted children need more than a pull-out program, and that gifted child education can be a pattern for appropriately differentiated instruction. (MM)

Students, it is argued, who have used combinations of entering college early and forging ahead fast in the curriculum have led or are leading highly effective lives. Parents and educators should have less fear when attempting to accelerate a child. (MLW)

This article favors providing both gifted and advanced placement programs for students. Three components of a unique gifted program are identified: (1) interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary courses; (2) character development; and (3) independent study. Advanced placement program objectives can be added to gifted programs but should not replace…

A teacher of an advanced placement English class of over-stressed, over-busy, and rebellious gifted seniors describes how she used Kafka's "Metamorphosis" to help them adjust to this transitional period in their lives while keeping all reading and assignments within the class period. (DB)

It is suggested that many high schools do not fully utilize the intellectual talents of their students as an educational resource. By serving as teaching interns or assistants under extremely close supervision, it is thought high school students can contribute significantly to the quality of the school's curriculum. (Author/MLW)

Approaches to cooperation between colleges and schools in serving students capable of advanced work are examined. Two major ways of serving bright high school students within their own schools in coordination with colleges are: programs developed by individual colleges with particular high schools, and the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP)…