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History of Gifted Education
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Prototypes
San Diego was a state that adopted a prototype program for the gifted. You could say they were the catalyst for the Gifted and Talented (GATE) program. In 1948 they did a city wide test, reporting that the achievement of superior students in the city had only a 50 percent chance to achieve at their level of capacity. They started a program with 300 students back in 1949 and to this day they still continue with this in some form. -
The Beginning
In 1957 after the Sputnik launch, Americans began the idea of identifying and challenging its most capable students. This meant they they would give the high ability students the oppertunity to be in accelerated classes, take courses beyond their years, and integrate science and technology into the cirriculum. -
Pioneer States
in 1963, California was the first state to start identifying gifted students on the state level. -
Pioneer States
After California started identifying gifted students, Illinois was soon to follow. Although these were the pioneer states to lead the way through the beginning, withing fifteen years they lost all their funding for gifted. -
All states involved
In 1980, Duke University established Talent Identification Program (TIP) to help identify gifted students. In the next year, North West University adopted a program as well called Center for Talented Developement, (CTD). Within two more years the Rocky Mountain Talent Search (RMTS) would pull in and complete all fifty states for identifying gifted students. -
Javits Act
In 1990 they noticed that there was an increased gap in the education of children in poverty compared to other children. This started up the Jarvits Act, where they took funding from the gifted program to help out children and schools in poverty, setting the gifted program back.