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Massachussetts opened the first special school for gifted children.
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Lewis Terman, the "father" of the gifted education movement, publishes the Stanford-Binet, forever changing the intellegence testing and face of American education.
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The National Association for Gifted Children is founded under the leadership of Ann Isaacs.
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The Soviet Union launches Sputnik , forcing the United States to reassess the quality of education in American schools. As a result, the brightest students who excelled in technology, math, and science would profit from programming.
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The Marland Report- The first formal deffinition is issued encouraging schools to define giftedness broadly, along with academic and intellectual talent the definition includes leadership ability, visual and performing arts, creative or productive thinking, and psychomotor ability. (Psychomotor ability is later excluded)
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The National Association for Gifted Children publishes Pre-K-Grade 12 standards to provide guidence in seven key areas for programs serving gifted and talented students. Standards were then again revised in 2010.
