E. P. Torrance: His Life, Accomplishments, and Legacy is a tribute to the renowned creativity researcher, university teacher, and mentor to numerous individuals throughout the world. This monograph is presented in three sections which include a discussion of Torrance's life, followed by an overview of his accomplishments, including his creativity…

First itemizing the barriers to creative thinking, the author proceeds to suggest brainstorming, morphology, and a method of alternating circles as procedures to encourage creativity. Courses in problem-solving have proven successful. (AG)

Article describes new efforts being made to identify and assist gifted poor children. (GB)

Describes efforts of OE to help gifted and talented students develop to full capacity. (GB)

The author suggests that a balanced view of freedom tempered with constraint can overcome barriers to the human potentials movement. (Author/WY)

Of 37 13- to 17-year-old students participating in a creative theater class, the ones with more experience scored significantly higher on creativity tests (Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking and Something About Myself Checklist) than their less experienced counterparts. (CL)

The author suggests that it is a myth of gifted education that a school must identify a certain percentage of students as gifted, which forces an adjustment in criteria and definition until just the right number of students have been identified. (CL)

Foregrounding, an approach to systematically analyzing the uses made of language, is advocated as a way to investigate process in the study of literature for gifted secondary students. The technique is illustrated in analysis of T.S. Elliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and William Faulkner's "Light in August." (CL)

The evaluation process of gifted programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District has evolved from a city-wide effort to measure cognitive and affective achievement through standardized tests to a more decentralized approach in which individual schools determine evaluation methods. Plans call for computerized data analysis. (CL)

Two educators answer questions from readers about school policy on gifted education, parents' concerns about their underachieving child, and a teacher's need for further education. (CL)

Eight states maintain Governors' Honors Programs for gifted and talented students. Programs in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia are briefly described in terms of content, location, and selection processes. The programs are seen as an important way to augment programing for gifted…

Interest has been growing in identification and appropriate education of gifted students with handicapping conditions. With the implementation of the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142), professionals in the fields of education for gifted students and for handicapped students have had more chances to exchange information.…

It was concluded that there seems to be a preference among intermediate level gifted/talented students for those instructional methods emphasizing independence, while students of the general population seem to prefer instructional methods with somewhat more structure. (Author)

Many gifted learning disabled (LD) students are identified by their handicapping condition rather than by their giftedness. Some suggestions for dealing with these students include providing opportunities for concentration on strengths as well as weaknesses and finding ways to circumvent the specific disability so that enrichment can take place.…