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Download full textJensen, Mishan – Online Submission, 2019
This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's bilingual and English as a second language programs implemented during 2018-2019. Programs are summarized, as well as student demographic characteristics and the number of students served.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingual Education Programs
Direct linkDai, David Yun; Steenbergen-Hu, Saiying – Roeper Review, 2015
This article introduces the Special Class for the Gifted Young (SCGY), an early college entrance program in mathematics and science in China, which has been a focus for media coverage and public discussion of accelerated education in China. We first describe the admission policy and academic programming of SCGY and delineate its distinct features.…
Descriptors: Special Programs, Acceleration (Education), College Admission, Admission Criteria
Jolly, Jennifer L. – Gifted Child Today, 2014
The "Marland" Report was the impetus and structure to provide a more systematic approach to building state and regional gifted programs. One of the strategies used to proliferate the spread of programming for gifted students throughout the states was the National/State Leadership Training Institute on the Gifted and Talented…
Descriptors: Gifted, Organizational Objectives, Talent Development, Leadership Training
Sternberg, Robert J. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
The augmented theory of successful intelligence [Sternberg, R. J. (2003b). "Wisdom, intelligence, and creativity synthesized." New York: Cambridge University Press] postulates that intelligence comprises creative skills in generating novel ideas; analytical skills in discerning whether they are good ideas; practical skills in implementing the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Thinking Skills, Critical Thinking, Program Descriptions
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Quality Assurance. – 1985
The report presents evaluation findings of the Gifted and Talented (G and T) Education program in the District of Columbia Public Schools. An introductory section provides background information and a project description. The evaluation follows the Planning, Monitoring, and Implementing Evaluation Model for Decision Making. An interim report,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness
Barstow, Daniel; Roby, Wallace R. – 1980
The document reports activities of "Encendiendo Una Llama," a bilingual gifted and talented program serving 60 students in grades K through 6 in a school day resource room component or in an after school program. Twelve program objectives are outlined in terms of proposed activities, proposed evaluation, actual results, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Gifted, Program Descriptions
Gilbert, Michael B. – 1982
The report describes the objectives and accomplishments of a summer enrichment program, Migrantes Envueltos en Nuevos Temas de Educacion/Migrants Engaged in New Themes in Education (MENTE), for promising and talented migrant high schoolers. The program is a cooperative one with a university. Students selected by a review committee are tested for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Enrichment, Gifted, High Schools
Tompkins, John F.; Schnelker, Diane – 1986
This document presents findings of an evaluation of the Gifted and Talented (G/T) Program serving 860 elementary and secondary school students in the Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District. The evaluation was based on a questionnaire approach designed to gather data from program participants and building coordinators. Comments…
Descriptors: Budgets, Elementary Education, Expenditures, Gifted
Ehrlich, Virginia Z. – 1978
The report presents a summative evaluation of the Astor Program for Gifted Children, which developed a resource center and also implemented a "host school" concept for intellectually gifted preschoolers in New York City. The program director's tasks in coordinating a resource center are discussed, including involving policy makers at…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Gifted, Preschool Education, Program Administration
Sharp, Bill; Watson, Pat – Journal of Research and Evaluation of the Oklahoma City Public Schools, 1981
A study involving 1,000 minority and limited English proficiency students was designed to gather descriptive data about the population served and analyze methods used to identify potential participants in the gifted and talented program in 15 elementary schools, 7 fifth year centers, and 6 middle schools. A combination of methods was used to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Gifted, Limited English Speaking, Minority Groups
Brumberg, Stephan F.; Toledo, Victor – 1979
This report provides a program description and evaluation findings of a bilingual program for gifted and talented children conducted at C.S. 211, an elementary school serving black and Hispanic children in an economically deprived area of the Bronx, New York. The program's goals, which included above grade level reading and mathematics performance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, Gifted
Peer reviewedStanley, Julian C.; Benbow, Camilla P. – Journal of Special Education, 1983
The review of the first 10 years of The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, which began in 1971, describes the program's origins in the identification and educational facilitation of specific students by individual staff members. Also described and evaluated are the fast paced precalculus, college level calculus, other mathematics classes,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Flexible Progression, Higher Education
Smilansky, Moshe; Nevo, David – 1979
This book reports on compensatory education in Israel and presents results of a 10-year evaluation of the Boarding School Fostering Program, a secondary school project in the education of culturally disadvantaged gifted students. The book is divided into two parts. Part One, "General Orientation to Compensatory Education in Israel," is…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs
Hirsch, Sharlene P. – 1979
The document describes the Executive High School Internships program which mainstreamed a pilot group of 14 high potential students with orthopedic, hearing, and sight impairments into a project which enabled them to spend a full term, on leave from classes, in nonpaid placements with public and private sector managers and executives, learning how…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Gifted, Hearing Impairments
Humphrey, Justin G.; Carey, Nancy L.; Mansfield, Wendy – US Department of Education, 2002
Talent Search projects identify and assist individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who have the potential to succeed in higher education. The program provides academic, career, and financial aid counseling to its participants and encourages them to graduate from high school and continue on to the postsecondary school of their choice. Talent…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent, Dropouts, Disadvantaged
