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Public Schools Seek to Educate the Gifted
William Torrey Harris, the superintendent of public schools in St. Louis, creates the first effort to educate gifted students in his district. -
We are in business!
The first school for the gifted opens in Worchester, Mass. -
Development of Testing Procedures
Two French researchers develop a series of tests called the Binet-Simon to identify children who may be gifted. Intelligence is now examined as a single numerical outcome which causes a revolution in pyschology. -
The "father" of gifted education has come home!
Lewis Terman published the Stanford-Binet which revolutionizes gifted education testing and gifted children's identification in school systems across the United States. -
Leta Hollingworth Comes on the Scene
Leta Hollingworth creates a class made for gifted children offering them special opportunities in learning. Forty research articles were written about this event and blueprints, as well as a textbook. -
Leta Hollingworth is a publisher!
Leta Hollingworth publishes Gifted Children: Their Nature and Nuture, which becomes the first textbook regarding gifted education. -
New School Established
Leta Hollingworth establishes the Speyer School for the gifted with ages ranging from 7-9 years. -
National Associated of Gifted Children Created
In 1954, the National Associated of Gifted Children was created. This organization was founded under Ann Isaacs.
