The Governor's School of North Carolina (West) offers a six-week summer program designed to develop creativity in gifted high school students. (SBH)

Authors provide guidelines for a program utilizing learning stations designed to motivate, stimulate, and guide affective and cognitive education at higher levels of thinking for academically gifted students. This approach to enrichment is defined, and the role of the teacher as facilitator is considered. (SBH)

The article describes the Designed Improvement Program for gifted and talented fourth through twelfth grade students. Sections address three types of enrichment activities based on the J. Renzulli Enrichment Triad Model: general exploratory activities, group training activities, and individual or small group investigation of real problems. (SBH)

A beginning teacher of intermediate gifted students describes her experiences with a mentorship program involving seven preservice teacher trainees. Both students and mentors responded positively to the approach. (CL)

A summer camp for gifted youth (13-16 years old) featured two field archaeology sessions in which students participated in excavation and field trips to nearby archaeological sites along with traditional camp activities. (CL)

The Cairo (Egypt) American College, offers a program for academically able elementary students based on a broad enrichment philosophy model and selective pullout classes. A resource teacher describes her experiences with the program and its students. (CL)

The Georgia Governor's Honors Program features six-week enrichment programs for gifted high school students in the gifted areas of interest: communication arts, mathematics, science, social studies, visual arts, music, voice, design, executive management, theater, dance, and foreign languages. (CL)

The eight articles report on the Richardson study, which is investigating education program for able learners. Approaches of five school districts located in Marshall and Spring, Texas; Southfield, Michigan; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Chicago, Illinois are described. Inferences are drawn regarding commonalities that give evidence of program…

Eight states maintain Governors' Honors Programs for gifted and talented students. Programs in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia are briefly described in terms of content, location, and selection processes. The programs are seen as an important way to augment programing for gifted…

The development of the LARC (Learning Activities to Raise Creativity) program for academically gifted school students is discussed. Among the goals of the program are exposure of students to multidisciplinary subject matter not encountered in the regular classroom and the nurture of creative thinking. (PHR)

A typical week for an enrichment teacher at the Saudi Arabian International School of Riyadh begins on Saturday and includes emphasis on science inquiry, visual imagery techniques, evaluation, drama, poetry, and literature enrichment. (CL)

The article describes College Academy, a summer school program for gifted and academically talented elementary children in Framingham, Massachusetts, designed to offer imaginative and challenging courses unavailable in a regular school setting. (DLS)

A mentor program designed to coordinate community experiences for gifted and talented students in 43 schools (grades K through 12) in Springfield (MA) is described and examples of program activities based on J. Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model are cited. (CL)

Two articles discuss gifted education in China. The first describes the Shanghai Children's Palace, a facility offering instruction and activities in a variety of topic areas for gifted and talented students. The second provides an overview of the country's commitment to gifted education. (CL)

The report of an intensive tour of 11 special summer programs for gifted and talented students includes descriptions of the National Music Camp, Interlochen, Michigan; National High School Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Governors programs (with a table giving information in 10 categories); and talent searches. (MC)