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Superintendent of public schools in St. Louis, Missouri, William Torrey Harris, implements the earliest system to educate gifted students (in America)
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Binet and Simon (French researchers) developed a test to evaluate intelligence in children
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Gifted education classes began to develop in response to the USSR launching Sputnik and the US wanting to have a competitive edge.
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Ann Isaacs leads the establishment of the National Association of Gifted Children.
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Marland commission revises definition of giftedness to be more broad; giftedness was expanded to include not only academic and intellectual skill, but also leadership or creative skills.
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Howard Gardner theorized that there are several types of intelligences; labels the variety of intelligences with the term Multiple Intelligences.
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No Child Left Behind Act changes the definition of giftedness in schools again; “Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.”
