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1868 William Torrey Harris
Willam Torrey Harris was viewed education should be based on the German Philosophy of designed by Georg William Friedrich Hegel. He believed that schools should start with kindergarten and explain. Others schools across the nations followed suit. Harris believed that schools should also be separated by church and state and that corporal punishment in schools should be replaced by self-discipline with moral values. He strongly suggested that schools should be and explain to more broader studies. -
1918 IQ Test
Lewis Terman utilized the Alfred-Binet intelligence test into the Standford-Binet test for scoring Intelligence quotient (IQ) tests. He first using the tests for new soldiers of World War I. After the war, he extended his research to children. Terman definition for intelligence was " the ability to carry abstract thinking. " He did extensive study on children who scored 140 or higher on the IQ test. -
1925 Genetic Studies of Genius
Terman published the first volume of the Genetic Studies of Genius. These study findings were the that gifted students were subjectively different in school; the students were modestly better both physically and emotionally; had a higher level of understanding in academic areas compared to their peers; emotionally more stable than their peers; performed better a higher family value and education standards; and the students shared the same traits that were performed by others in the study. -
1957 Sputnik
Russia launched the first artificial satellite. The race to space set the level high for the US. Schools started to focus on more hands-on types experiments in the science and math. The NDE Act was formed a year later to provide more money for education at every level including college loans for science and technology degrees at a lower interest rate. -
NAGC Gifted Standards
The purpose of the NAGC Standards is to provide focus on diversity and collaboration. The standards allow students to produce outcome goals. The standards provide a foundation for theory, research, and practice paradigms. The standards focuses on learning development, assessments, curriculum and instruction, learning enviroment, programming and professional development. -
NAGC Teacher Preparation Programs
The NAGC published standards for teacher preparation programs to provide knowledge and skills in gifted education for all teachers teach in general and gifted setting. In 2013, the standards were revised to include 7 standards and 28 individual elements.
