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Launch of Gifted Education
William Torrey Harris, superintendent in St.Louis, begins first efforts made in public education to educate gifted students. -
First School for Gifted Children
The first school for gifted children opened in Worcester, Massachusettes -
Identifying gifted children
French psychologists, Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon, create the first true intelligece test that measue both vocabulary knowledge and thinking skills to give a single numerical outcome or IQ (interlligence quotient). -
The "Father" of Gifted Education
Stanford University psycologist Lewis M. Terman revises and improves the Binet-Simon test. It also extends to adults. This changes intellignece testing forever and is called the Stanford-Binet, -
Study of gifted children
Lewis Terman continues the gifted child movement, looking for children with IQs of 135-140, beginning the longest running study of gifted children. -
Gifted Child Eduactor
Leta Stetter Hollingworth, professor of Education at Teachers College of Colombia University, opens a Special, Opporubnity class in NYC for gifted children. -
NAGT founded
Under Ann Isaacs leadership, the National Association of Gifted Children is founded. -
Sputnik launches
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik which makes American schooling pour money into trying to identify gifted children in math, science and technology. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlaws the discrimination of race, color, religiom, sex or national origin. Emphasizes equal opportunities in eduaction. -
NAGC publishes standards
The NAGC publishes national gifted education standards for teacher prep programs and for all teachers in gifted education. Later to be revised in 2013.
