Studies gifted fifth and sixth grade students to determine whether their scores differ on measures of verbal productivity after placement in three different programs. No significant differences were reported. (HMV)

By presenting cases of prodigies who entered college as early as William James Bidis but who succeeded, this paper attempts to dissuade the public from its opposition to educational acceleration for precocious children, to which the "Sidis fallacy" has helped give rise. (Author)

This study was an examination of the affective regard of preservice teachers toward gifted children. Results indicate that the preservice teachers with specific training related to the gifted have a moderately positive affective regard of those children. (Author)

Describes a program that identifies gifted mathematics students and places them in an accelerated program. (IRT)

Chapter 2 of "Education of Exceptional Children, a review of the literature for the 3-year period since the issuance of "REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, Volume 36, No 1, February 1966.

Listed are 17 school related experiences which are said to contain clues to giftedness. (GW)

A literature program for gifted sixth graders meets one hour per day three days a week and covers four topics during the year: biography, realistic fiction, poetry, and tragedy. The biography unit consists of reading three biographies, completing three corresponding directed reading activities, and writing a five page research project on a famous…

Presented are 400 abstracts of publications (books, journal articles, monographs, theses) concerned with the education of gifted children. Abstracts are in alphabetical order by author and were published from 1965 through 1971. (DB)

Quoted is a brief introduction pointing out the fact that gifted and talented students can benefit from cooperation between education and the business community. (IM)