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

The final report of a program offering community-based mentorships for secondary level gifted and talented students contains information on 11 model projects located in the West, Midwest, and Northeast. Offered is a rationale for the use of mentors to provide instruction and role models for gifted students. Criteria for selection of the model…

The stated purpose of the Project for Mathematics Education for Gifted Secondary School Students (MEGSSS) is to provide an instructional program for gifted students utilizing the Elements of Mathematics (EM) Program, a curriculum specifically designed for students with superior reasoning ability in mathematics. This report is the result of an…

Describes two programs that serve gifted students with special needs. The first, Project HIGH HOPES, helps students by establishing curricular accommodations. The other program entails staff members ensuring that gifted students are challenged and that these students' parents know how to interact effectively with their children. (MKA)

The article desribes IMPACT, a 12-year-old program for gifted high schoolers that emphasizes self-directed independent study. Program objectives, procedures, special features, methods of awarding course credit, and criteria for evaluation are outlined. (Author/CL)

Two projects have been designed to help gifted students enlarge, enrich, and make more accurate their images of the future. (BD)

Brief discussions of general vs. special ability and of mathematical reasoning ability form the introduction of this paper on the education of mathematically gifted students. The second section of the paper describes the annual mathematics talent searches conducted by the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). The third section covers…

The article describes the Independent Study and Seminar Program for Gifted urban high school students. (CL)

The Learning Enrichment Service, a model for meeting the needs of gifted secondary students, acts as a schoolwide support system for teachers and students in both the regular classroom and specialized programs by screening, training, networking, counselling, and exchanging information for enrichment programing. (Author)

An ecology program for gifted high school students incorporated such diverse areas as writing, oral skills, political interests, and photography into a scientific research framework. (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 article describes the selection and participation of 23 gifted high school leaders in a law-related program focusing on moral questions, values and standards, and prison reform. (CL)

During the summer of 1976, the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory sponsored a Student Science Training Program in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science for high ability secondary school students. This report describes, in some detail, the style of the program, the curriculum and the projects the students under-took. It is hoped that this…

High school honors programs can help meet the needs of students who have an extra measure of intellectual ability and the desire to learn in depth, become independent, and pursue special interests. This paper points out how little is done nationwide to help gifted students and urges schools to institute honors programs. It then describes an…

The booklet explains the activities of a Think Tank Day designed by the staff, gifted students, and parents of Pasadena High School to focus on what leaders could do for their school. After outlining the design of the day and briefly describing the movie which was presented to stimulate discussion, a list of 37 "boxes" people at the high school…