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The Nature and Needs of Gifted and Talented Students

By dennisjed

  • St. Louis Initiates Tracking

    Certain students able to complete first 8 grades in less than 8 years

  • Double Tillage Plan - Woburn, MA

    After completing the first semester, brightest students were accelerated

  • Elizabeth, NJ - Tracking System Implemented

  • Cambridge, MA - Double-Track Plan

    Special tutors for advanced students

  • "Rapid Progress" classes appear

  • Alfred Binet and T. Simon Devise Test in Paris

  • Worcester, MA - First School for Gifted Children Opens

  • Henry Goddard uses Binet-Simon

    Goddard uses test on 400 "feebleminded" children

  • Lewis Terman publishes Stanford-Binet

  • Hollingworth Textbook

    Gifted Children: Their Nature and Nurture

  • Sputnik

    American defeat to space at the hands of the Russions. To many, represented shortcomings in our educational advancements.

  • A Nation At Risk

  • No Child Left Behind