History of Gifted and Talented By awood@rsu56.org 1800 Thomas Jefferson 1868 St Louis Plan MO 1869 Hereditary Genius 1905 First Intelligence Tests 1908 IQ Tests Brought to the United States 1916 Sanford – Binet Scale 1918 Opportunity Room 1921 Longitudinal Study of Gifted Individuals Begins 1922 Genetic Studies of Genius 1926 Gifted Child: Their Nature and Nurture 1936 Speyer School 1938 Fraiser Talent Assessment Profile 1954 NAGC was formed 1955 AP exams start 1958 National Defense of Education Act 1972 Marland Report 1978 Renzulli Creates a Definition 1983 Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligence 1983 A Nation at Risk Report 1986 Conceptions of Giftedness 1988 Jacob Javits GT Student Education Act 1993 National Excellence 1998 NAGC Standards for Gifted Learning 2002 NCLB 2004 A Nation Deceived 2015 Talent Act