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St. Louis Public Schools Suoerintendent, William Torrey Harris, creates efforts in Public Schools to educate gifted students in 1868.
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Binet and Simon develop a series of tests to identify students with giftedness. The tests only measurie mental age in a single outcome through a series of tests.
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Lewis Terman begins the longest longiitudinal study of gifted students with a sample study of 1500 gifted students.
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Ann Isaacs is the leader of the newly founded "National Association of gifted students."
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Soviet Union launches "Sputnik" forcing the United States to reexamine the quality of American schooling in Math and Science, but also used funds to identify talented and gifted students in these subject areas.
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First definition of gifted education is issued to schools encouraging them to broadly define gifted education including: intellectual and academic talents, leadership abilities, visual and performing arts, and creative and productive thinking. Also was the first National Report on gifted education.
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Jacob Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act was launched as part of the reauthorization of Elementary and Secondary School Act. The JJGTSEA provides grant money for gifted education research as well as grant money to fo directly to schools to fund gifted and talented education programs.
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US Department of Education, outlines how America neglects its most talented youth ,and offers recommendations on how to improve gifted education programs from the past decade of research.
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Gifted Program standards provide guidance in 7 areas for gifted education programs.
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Javits program included in NCLB and expanded to offer statewide grants. Definition of giftedness is also broadened once again including: intellectual, high achievement, creative, artistic, and leadership abilities.
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NAGC publishes gifted education standards and standards to all teachers to help them be prepared to teach gifted students. Revised later in 2013.
