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Peer reviewedWright, Lisa; Borland, James H. – Roeper Review, 1992
The mentorship component of Project Synergy at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York), develops the talent of potentially gifted, economically disadvantaged urban kindergarten children, by matching them with mentors from a school for gifted urban minority middle school students. This paper describes training, the mentoring relationship…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Economically Disadvantaged, Gifted Disadvantaged, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedMills, Carol J.; And Others – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
Thirty-six educationally disadvantaged gifted fifth grade students completed a program to reinforce their academic skills in either language arts or mathematics. Compared to controls, subjects showed gains in achievement and aptitude test scores in language arts as well as mathematics and then became eligible for challenging gifted/talented…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Academically Gifted
