The educational environment offered highly capable students (K-12) at the Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth, California, is described. The program stresses student participation, problem solving, a four-year curriculum cycle, all-school year-long themes, and cross-age grouping. (DB)

The arts and college preparatory academic program at the Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan) for talented high school students is described. The academy offers intense training in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and visual arts. Also briefly described is the Interlochen Arts Camp which offers intense study in a performing or visual art.…

Faculty members of a St. Louis, Missouri, pre-K-6 school studied Harold Gardner's theories on multiple intelligences in "Frames of Mind" (1983) and developed a program based on 7 learning modalities. Although implementation varies by classroom, teachers are using all seven intelligences in designing instruction, and a faculty subgroup is…

Follow-up of 98 Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners in 1983 found that 49 of the 60 male participants and 25 of the 38 female participants could still be categorized as scientists or mathematicians. Reasons for career choices, the role of mentors, and effects of the Westinghouse winner label were explored. (DB)

This case study analyzes characteristics of a painting teacher of artistically talented 13- to 16-year-old students. The study describes the teacher's philosophy, curricular concerns, teaching content, classroom management, the use of individual and group critiques, and student and adult observer responses to his teaching style. Generalizations…

This final panel interview from the Indiana University Summer Arts Institute attempts to summarize findings of previous sessions. For inclusion in the Indiana University and Israel programs, it is decided, students must evidence not only artistic talent and skill, but also interest in plural areas of study. (Author/PB)

This paper reviews research findings and research needs in the area of identification of gifted students from disadvantaged and culturally diverse groups. The Frasier Talent Assessment Profile system is presented as a way to utilize data from test and nontest sources to identify these children. (JDD)

The initial step in providing gifted children with appropriate educational opportunities is to identify them. Recently, education has taken more definite steps toward identification of gifted students. The paper describes characteristics of gifted children, discusses how parents can work with the school, and makes suggestions for fostering…

A study involving an elementary classroom with 21 students found four techniques were useful for meeting the needs of high-ability students in general-education classrooms: differentiated instruction; student choice; flexible grouping; and mixing enrichment with acceleration. (Author/CR)

In this interview Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education and Counselor to the Secretary of Education, Lamar Alexander, discusses her current role as an education policy maker and writer, her educational experiences, her educational philosophy, and the failure of the education system to develop children's potential. (CR)

Describes an innovative model of female talent development based upon the life experiences of gifted women from a wide variety of backgrounds and talent domains. Key issues addressed by the model are the personal, professional, and cultural challenges common to gifted females and strategies for coping with them. (Author/CR)

A study explored the self and environmental perceptions of six talented high school students of Puerto Rican descent who were underachieving. The absence of early appropriate academic experiences thwarted students' possibilities of developing their high abilities or talents. A model explaining underachievement and suggestions for meeting students'…

An educator of the gifted recounts how she applied principles of gifted education and talent development such as the Enrichment Triad Model to stimulate and enrich the life of her 85-year-old father diagnosed with terminal cancer. The author notes that the need for talent development is lifelong and that stewardship of talent can transform…

This brief article reviews the literature on the relative importance of genetic or environmental influences on intelligence. It concludes that: (1) giftedness has various expressions; (2) intelligence encompasses a wide range of human abilities; (3) both subjective and objective assessment techniques should be used; and (4) all ethnicities have…

This article profiles Leta Stetter Hollingworth, the founder of gifted education. It discusses her childhood, the New York Public School 165 experiment, the Speyer School experiment, and her overriding belief that since all human beings were not created intellectually equal, all children should not be equated in the same way. (Contains…