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Timeline of Gifted Education

By notehiker

  • Efforts to educate gifted students

    Efforts to educate gifted students
    William Torrey Harris, St. Louis superintendaent of public schools encorporates the earliest stystem for gifted education

  • First Gifted School

    First Gifted School
    Worcester, Massachusetts opened first special school for gifted children

  • Gifted study established by Lewis Terman

    Gifted study established by Lewis Terman
    Terman esablished the longest running longitudinal study of gifted children

  • Leta Hollingworth - Gifted Child: Their Nature and Nurture, textbook

    Leta Hollingworth - Gifted Child: Their Nature and Nurture, textbook
    Considered to be the first text book for gifted education

  • Federal Government - National Defence Education Act

    Federal Government - National Defence Education Act
    First large-scale effort by the federal government in gifted Education

  • Civil Rights Act passes

    Civil Rights Act passes
    Equal opportunities ,including education, were impossed by the passing of the Civil Rights Act

  • National Excellence

    National Excellence
    The Case for Developing Americas's Talent was issued by the US Department of Education showing that America neglects its most talented youth.

  • NAGC - Gifted Program Standards

    NAGC - Gifted Program Standards
    Pre-K -grade 12 Standards to provide guidance in seven key areas for programs serving gifted and talented students. Rivised in 2010