Journal of Secondary Gifted Education articles from March 2001

Journal of Secondary Gifted Education archives from March 2001

From the Editor's Desk.
March 22, 2001... The coeditors of JSGE are pleased to bring you this special issue that was prepared to both celebrate and mark the new millennium. This issue was planned by all of the coeditors of JSGE and has many contributors. We chose to include an...

Interview With E. Paul Torrance on Creativity in the Last and Next Millennia.
March 22, 2001... I interviewed E. Paul Torrance on a bright, cold day in early December at his home in Athens, GA. He still lives in the house near the university that he and Pansy, his wife, moved into shortly before she passed away. The first thing one...

Understanding the Challenge of Creativity Among African Americans.
March 22, 2001... The relationship between creativity and intelligence, the recognition of creativity in students (a process that can be empirically documented), and the basic construct of creativity are the basis for much discussion. In adding a special...

The Role of Advanced Placement in Talent Development.
March 22, 2001... Introduction As a field, gifted education has never fully embraced or endorsed Advanced Placement programs as a viable program option for secondary gifted learners. I believe that this position is untenable, given the role that Advanced...

Personnel Preparation and Secondary Education Programs For Gifted Students.
March 22, 2001... The advent of the new millennium has created a new willingness to accept change as a natural event. Change in the way we prepare personnel to work with gifted students is one that is needed (Gallagher, 2000). The education of gifted students...

Standards and Standards Plus: A Good Idea or a New Cage?
March 22, 2001... At the 1999 annual meeting of the National Association for Gifted Children, I was part of a panel that dealt with issues the field should consider as we approach the new millennium. One of the topics with which I dealt had to do with how gifted...

Equity and Excellence: Providing Access to Gifted Education for Culturally Diverse Students.
March 22, 2001... Lacking both Incentive and opportunity, the probabilities are very great that, however superior one's gifts may be, he will rarely live a life of high achievement. Follow-up studies of highly gifted young Negroes...reveal a shocking waste of...

Fourth Down and Inches.(planning gifted education)
March 22, 2001... Just as there are critical moments and plays in any sports contest, there are critical times in educational decision making when the actions of leaders must be sufficiently creative and forceful to propel a field forward with enough force to...

Gifted and Talented Youth as Philosophers of the New Millennium.
March 22, 2001... Not on sad stygian shore, nor in clear sheen Of far Elysian plain, shall we meet those Among the dead whose pupils we have been... Yet meet we shall, and part, and meet again, Where dead men meet, on lips of living men. ...

Pedagogy of Patriarchy: A Window on American 21st Century Gifted Education.
March 22, 2001... The issue of grouping gifted students by ability has been a point of controversy for a long time. In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik into space, igniting intense debate in this county about the quality of...

Stronger Together Than Apart: Building Better Models Through Collaboration and Interconnection.
March 22, 2001... "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."--George Santayana (1863-1952) To plan gifted education in the 21st century, one must first consider the relatively brief history of the field. Until the 1957 Sputnik launch...

Probabilities and Possibilities: The Future of Gifted Education.
March 22, 2001... The advent of the millennium has demonstrated people's fascination with time, with the calendar, and with the marking of milestones. Although this milestone is really an arbitrary distinction (or, rather, not significant to all world...

Direction of Gifted Education in the First Decade of the 21st Century: A Step Back, Continuity, and New Directions.
March 22, 2001... Beginning an academic career at the dawn of a new millennium offers an excellent opportunity to take stock of gifted education and to think about the future. In the last two decades, educational movements stressing equity have resulted in the...

Giving Pause to Giftedness: Where Do We Go From Here?
March 22, 2001... At the dawn of a new millennium, experts and novices in the field of giftedness may be summoned to use this time to review, scrutinize, and ponder various aspects of the field and their roles in advancing it. Giving pause to giftedness allows...

Negotiating the Sands of Time: The First Hundredth XX.
March 22, 2001... In the first decade of the millennium, gifted child education profit by looking back as a field and documenting where we have been. Dialogically, we also need to set a course for the future with clearly defined statements of intention grounded...

Changing States of Matter: Science, Education, and Giftedness in 21st Century High Schools.
March 22, 2001... Introduction I grew up with a saying whose origin I do not know: If you hold on to something too tightly, it dies. Current education stills holds tightly to what are, or will soon be, outdated priorities. Such a system will flounder,...

The Disappearing Bell Curve.
March 22, 2001... The way in which we determine the population distribution of intellectual ability is an important issue for the field of gifted education because it greatly influences decisions we make about identification, justifications for provision of...