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Gifted education compulsory schooling laws were enacted. Even though there was was little to no education practices for gifted children, new developments and research were starting to develop for gifted education. -
Los Angeles, wanted to identify the brightest grade-school children and separate them from their slower learning classmates through application of individual ability testing. This shows the impact of separation of gifted students from main stream students. This showed the pros and cons of having only gifted students in a classroom. -
Honors classes, special classes in foreign languages, and other extracurricular programs were offered to the gifted in the secondary schools. Giving secondary students an opportunity to expand their minds within the public school system. -
Cleveland, had 1,200 + bright children were enrolled in 17 major centers catering exclusively to their needs. This gave a large number children a place to go to express themselves through their gifted interests. Also, having more than just a school to express themselves is a major accomplishment. This gave insight for other states to create centers just like Cleveland. -
Identification had become two-tiered due to state guidelines. Identifying gifted became more than just the IQ test for children to identify giftedness. -
Four First Order Gifted (FOG) secondary seminar centers for students were opened for students with IQ 155+. Students had a place to go to be in school specifically for gifted. -
All 50 states had some form of legislation for gifted education. Gifted education was being established in almost all the states. Giving the recognition all the researchers before were looking for. -
A policy initiative in South Carolina focused on the need to identify more African American children as gifted and talented. -
“A Nation Deceived” proclaimed the need for greater attention to providing acceleration to students throughout the country to ensure that able students were not being held in place at the expense of their educational advancement. This gave a voice to students who were being held back due to their curriculum or classmates. -
Gifted education had the biggest pushes from 1970's - 2000's. In 2021, gifted education has not made the changes it greatly needs. With all the technology and advances they could have, we still don't. Changes still need to be made to help our gifted learners and our teachers that work with gifted learners.