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Kuykendall, Tristta – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2023
Gifted education is a broken talent pipeline. Gifted programs in primary schools provide access to honors and advanced curriculum in middle schools, which lead to advanced courses in secondary schools, which are pipelines to higher education institutions (Milner & Ford, 2007; Patrick et al., 2020). Though gifted students exist in all…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Gifted Education, Equal Education, Student Characteristics
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Carr, Christine – Parenting for High Potential, 2019
This article begins with vignettes that demonstrate how talent potential can (and does) manifest differently in different children. While some children display talent in one or more academic fields, other children demonstrate creative, intellectual, or artistic aptitudes. Regardless of their field or domain of talent, all children can benefit from…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Language Skills, Literacy, Individual Characteristics
Oregon Department of Education, 2023
ORS 327.016 directs the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) to prepare an annual report on English learner program funding and student outcomes. The report's intention is to describe the population of English Learners in Oregon and provide a summary of district and state progress towards meeting their needs and objectives. This report consists of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Expenditure per Student, Outcomes of Education, Academic Achievement
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Pease, Randy; Vuke, Mary; June Maker, C.; Muammar, Omar M. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2020
Developing students' strengths while teaching the content required by national and state standards in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is challenging for classroom teachers. In the Cultivating Diverse Talent in STEM (CDTIS) project, the assessment results found in strength-based reports gave teachers the tools needed to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Learner Engagement, Problem Solving, Ability
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Treffinger, Donald J. – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2013
Let us suppose that schools are, or might strive to become, places in which educators work collaboratively with parents and the wider community to recognize, nurture, and celebrate the strengths and talents in all people (cf., McCluskey, Treffinger, & Baker, 1995). Based on such a vision for education, this article describes a practical model…
Descriptors: Talent Development, At Risk Students, Models, Gifted Education
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Sayler, Michael F. – Roeper Review, 2015
The University of North Texas's Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science began admitting students to its 2-year early college entrance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program in the fall of 1988. This program provided accelerated entry for top students in Texas in the areas of mathematics and science. Approximately 200…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Development, Career Academies
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Hunt, Lucy; Yoshida-Ehrmann, Erin – Gifted Child Today, 2016
Project Linking Learning ("Link") was created to target the needs of gifted students in urban school districts with historically underserved populations. Project Linking Learning implemented a linking curriculum between in-class instruction and an afterschool enrichment program for selected students in second through fifth grade.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, School Districts, Gifted
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Md-Yunus, Sham'ah – Childhood Education, 2007
Children are often far more gifted than their parents or teachers realize--and in different ways. IQ tests do not measure creative talent. Most children start life with valuable creative potential. Unfortunately, many of them have it knocked out of them, so to speak, by the time they reach the 4th grade. It is not that parents and teachers…
Descriptors: Talent Development, Creativity, Parent Role, Academically Gifted
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Hodges, Timothy D.; Harter, James K. – Educational Horizons, 2005
StrengthsQuest is a student program that focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses. It is intended to lead students to discover their natural talents and gain unique and valuable insights into how to develop such talents into strengths--strengths that equip them to succeed and to make important decisions that enable them to balance the demands…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Talent Development, Student Empowerment
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Page, Angela – Kairaranga, 2006
The Ministry of Education (2000) handbook, "Gifted and talented students: Meeting their needs in New Zealand Schools" requires each school to show they are identifying and catering for their gifted and talented students. The terms "gifted" and "talented" represent a range of diverse special abilities rather than…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Foreign Countries, Talent Development, Academically Gifted
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Haroutounian, Joanne – Arts Education Policy Review, 1998
Describes various collaborative programs between community arts organizations and schools that provide long-range talent development. Considers the aspects of identifying artistic talent within the arts. Addresses artistic underpinnings, perceptual discrimination, metaperception, creative interpretation, student commitment, the procedures, the…
Descriptors: Art Education, Creativity, Elementary Education, Fine Arts
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Kelly, Steven N. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1997
Investigates the effects of conducting instruction on beginning band students' individual rhythmic performance, group rhythmic performance, group performance of legato and staccato, and group performance of phrasing and dynamics. The students represented diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Concludes the conducting instruction is a useful tool…
Descriptors: Applied Music, Bands (Music), Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
De Sousa, D. Jason – National Survey of Student Engagement, 2005
Students who are well prepared academically and highly motivated tend to do well in college and persist to graduation. But for various reasons--some of which are beyond their control-- many students lack the requisite academic background for college-level work. As a result, most colleges and universities enroll students with a wide range of…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Colleges, Graduation, Academic Achievement
Miles, William R., Ed. – 1981
The papers presented in this monograph address a number of concerns in developing a pedagogical approach for gifted and talented children. In the first paper, it is noted that routine intelligence tests cannot be relied upon to identify the gifted, and that a more stringent case study approach should be adopted to take into account the particular…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Counseling Services