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William Torry Harris
William, who while superintendent of public schools in St. Louis, Missouri established the first permanent public kindergarten begins to examine ways to accurately educate gifted students -
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A Brief History of Gifted Education
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Stanford- Binet Inteeligence test is published
What is the Stanford- Binet?
The Stanford- Binet test is published, as adapted from the original Binet-Simon intelligence test by Lewis Terman, and used to help identify gifted students in American schools. -
First textbook on gifted education is published.
Who was Leta Hollingsworth? Gifted Education : Their Nature and Nurture , widely believed to be the first textbook on gifted education is published by Leta Hollingworth, a pioneer for being a woman working in the field of psychology in the early 1900s. -
The National Association of Gifted Education is founded.
NAGC website Ann Isaacs founds the National Association of Gifted Education. -
No Child Left Behind Act is passed
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act is renamed and passed as No Child Left Behind and requires quality education for all students. The definition of gifted education changes again to :Students, children or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities. -
Gifted Education Standards published.
These original set of standards published by NAGC were been revised in 2013.
