Effective use of microcomputers with gifted students requires that educators consider long- and short-range program goals, select software carefully, and integrate microcomputer functions into the overall curriculum. Microcomputers are not a panacea for the gifted, but their proper use may enhance instruction and stimulate learning. (JHZ)

The Center for the Advancement of Academically Talented Youth demonstrates the contribution that colleges can make to the education of students who are ready for a level and pacing of instruction not available in the schools. This Johns Hopkins University program is described. (Author/MLW)

Explains a project where urban gifted students designed and wrote a 62-page activity resource book for children. Participants (aged K-junior high) visited the marsh, researched topics, and created activities for inclusion in the book. Teachers believe that the writers used creative abilities, problem-solving, and higher levels of thinking in this…

Discussion of role of the school library in the academic life of the gifted/talented student highlights characteristics of gifted students which relate to library services, teaching library skills and research techniques, and other library activities (author interviews, library aides, reading encouragement). A 95-item bibliography of library…

Notes need for outdoor education programs for gifted students. Describes a 1981 survey of such programs provided by New York's Board of Cooperative Educational Services and outdoor education centers. Renzulli's Enrichment Triad Model and Parents' Creative Problem Solving Process are suggested as models to teach gifted students through outdoor…

Although British teachers of English, French, physics, and mathematics were somewhat successful in identifying students with high subject-specific ability, inappropriate influences were at work in coloring their judgment. These influences, however, were not so strong as to lead to gross misjudgment. (RM)

Discusses American attitudes toward education for the gifted, minority attitudes toward testing, economic correlates of giftedness, educational strategies for financing the education of the gifted, and present and future policies. (CMG)

Reports that, as a group, elementary school teachers in one large school district felt that they must teach beyond the basic textbook to enable gifted students to reach their potential. (FL)

As the field of gifted education has increasingly embraced broader definitions of giftedness, teachers and specialists in the education of the gifted and talented need additional ways to assess the talent development needs of a broader array of students. Since learning styles comprise an important component of any comprehensive talent development…

Raising some of the most challenging questions in the field, this call-to-arms focuses on the important services gifted programs provide, the potential crisis gifted educators face, and what must be done to keep the gifted child movement alive and well. Key features include: (1) James J. Gallagher's unflinching account of the issues that continue…

Eric Jensen, a leading expert in the translation of brain research into education, argues that students' achievement capacity is greatly underappreciated. Drawing from a wide range of neuroscience research as well as related studies, the author reveals that the human brain is far more dynamic and malleable than earlier believed. He offers a…

This book provides ideas and strategies for developing verbal talents in elementary and middle school students. Chapters include: (1) "The Process of Talent Development" (Joyce VanTassel-Baska); (2) "Talent Identification and Development in the Language Arts" (A. Harry Passow); (3) "Reading, Writing, and the Construction of Meaning" (Nancy Nelson…

Each of the four issues of the newsletter of the Texas Association for the Gifted focuses on a theme: leadership, evaluation and assessment, curriculum issues, and accountability issues. Issues usually contain theme-related major articles, columns by the Association's president and executive director, a column examining related research, answers…

This document is one of a series of reports based on the Special Education Expenditure Project, a study of the nation's spending on special education and related services based on analysis of data for the 1999-2000 school year. This report focuses on three questions: "How much is the nation spending on services for students with disabilities?";…