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Midwest Talent Search Quarterly, 1984
Four issues of the newletter focus on aspects of education for academically talented students. The major articles in each issue address the following topics: the importance of career, psychosocial, and academic counseling for gifted students; curriculum development; summer programs of the Midwest Talent Search (MTS); leadership training; the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Counseling Techniques, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Brody, Lawrence; And Others – 1968
This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, to increase their academic motivation, to improve their scholastic achievement, to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves, and to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Preparation, Compensatory Education
Cox, June; And Others – 1985
The text reports on findings of the Richardson study, a 4-year examination of current programing for gifted and talented students. An introductory chapter comments upon current attention to gifted education and summarizes reflections on home and school influences of MacArthur Fellows. Chapter 2 reviews results of a national survey of school…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
Brody, Lawrence; And Others – 1969
This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks (1) to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, (2) to increase their academic motivation, (3) to improve their scholastic achievement, (4) to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Achievement Gains, College Preparation
Arendt, Jermaine C., Ed. – Minneapolis Public Schools Foreign Language Newsletter, 1971
The summer language programs of the Twin City Institute for Talented Youth of Minneapolis and St. Paul are examined in this newsletter. New courses in Spanish, German, and French, added to the basic program in 1971, as well as the continuing Russian course are described. Primary consideration is given to the nature of each course, purpose,…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, French
Communicator, 1991
All five issues of volume 21 of the "Communicator," a journal concerned with giftedness in school-age children, are collected in this document. Major articles (and their authors) include the following: "Technology and Change: From the Renaissance World to Microworlds" (Gail Marshall); "Computers and Creativity: Tools,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Art Education, Career Education, Computer Uses in Education