The Chevron/Mayoral Fellowship program in New Orleans is described. The program provides private funding to support 30 selected high school students each summer in internships in city government agencies. Evaluation after three years has been positive and demonstrate the potential of a governmental/public/private educational program. (DB)

A three-day summer program for gifted junior high school students to develop leadership skills consisted of consideration of specific skills (self confidence, personal responsibility, communication, and team building) and use of these skills in an outdoor challenge course. (DB)

Areas of concern in the mandation of gifted education include its defensibility, affordability, and contribution to excellent education. Recommendations for improvements or alternatives to mandation are offered. In response to this paper, Neil Salkind supports mandated programs, while Peggy Dettmer's counterpoint calls for deferring judgment and…

The Multiple Menu Model is a practical set of planning guides that can assist developers of curriculum for gifted students to combine content with instructional strategies. Planning menus in the areas of knowledge, instructional objectives, student activities, instructional strategies, instructional sequences, and artistic modification and a…

This study investigated patterns of Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) Third Edition subtest scores for 42 gifted children in grades 4-8. Variability from subtest means was highest on Similarities, Comprehension, Coding, and Symbol Search subtests. Significant weaknesses were found on the Block Design subtest, seen as a peak subtest…

This paper examines characteristics of resilience and compares characteristics of giftedness and resilience. It discusses cognitive appraisal as a mechanism used by gifted children as they develop resilience. Applications for working with gifted students and areas for future research are noted. (JDD)

Seven gifted children (ages 9-14), their families, teachers, and friends were interviewed concerning their adjustment and coping with stress. Patterns which applied to all seven children are described, including: adjustment as process, use of withdrawal or self-initiated timeout, creation of challenges, assertiveness, recognition of achievement,…

Gifted adults are recognized by society solely by their achievements, though the unusual developmental trajectory of the gifted creates an extraordinary experience of life at any age. The achievement orientation is now taking over gifted education and makes it difficult for the gifted to understand and honor the qualities of mind that make them…

A survey of secondary students' perceptions concerning leadership in the year 2000 was conducted in 1988 and subsequently replicated to determine any changes in perception over time. The survey examined leadership characteristics, leadership training in schools, women's roles, leading countries, technological advances, environmental changes,…

This review of computers and gifted students offers principles of good programming for gifted and talented students; identifies three levels of computer literacy; and urges the use of computers to support program goals such as accommodating individual learning styles and preferences, encouraging students to take responsibility for their own…

A review of literature on sensitivity as an affective characteristic of gifted persons is presented. A multifaceted approach to sensitivity is proposed, conceptualizing it as consisting of cognitive and affective dimensions of both interpersonal and intrapersonal sensitivity. The psychological concepts of self-awareness, perspective taking,…

The teacher of a second-grade gifted girl with disruptive classroom behaviors worked to modify the girl's behavior and to develop a cooperative relationship with the girl's mother despite early friction. Efforts included strengthening home-school communication, having the mother secretly observe the girl's behavior problems, and rewarding both the…

To address American Indian underrepresentation in New Mexico's gifted and talented education programs, the Santa Fe Indian School investigated Keresan Pueblo communities' perceptions of giftedness within their own cultural context. In contrast to the mainstream individualistic concept of giftedness, the Keresan Pueblo concept focuses on the…

Meta-analytic results reported show that in selected examples, mathematics-space correlations are higher in females than in males, with the difference becoming more pronounced with greater selectivity. Because these samples are of gifted or college-bound youth, explanations that emphasize career-directed attitudes are suggested. (SLD)

This study, involving 169 intellectually gifted secondary students, found that gifted girls, more than gifted boys, attributed both success and failure in mathematics, science, and English to effort and strategy. Gifted girls also tended to report greater confidence and interest in English. No gender differences were found in terms of maladaptive…