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This full text article by Gail Lewis reviews circumstances when acceleration may not be a preferred educational intervention for a highly, exceptionally or profoundly gifted child. She goes on to outline alternative provisions and strategies to use when acceleration is not possible or desirable. She also discusses potential programming pitfalls and components of successful programming.
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This full text article by Katheryn Kearney and Jene LeBlanc researches five very early studies of gifted African Americans (1924 - 1944) which had seldom appeared in the mainstream literature on the gifted. The authors research both the research and the researchers. Not only was it evident that there was a concerted effort by African American scholars to create a literature about gifted African Americans in the very earliest beginnings of the field of psychology and education of the gifted, but several of the researchers located profoundly gift...
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This full text article by Janine Lehane describes some of the musical accomplishments of Lorin Hollander, as well as other work and charity he is involved with. The piano prodigy's childhood is explored briefly to give the reader an idea of what it was like to be Lorin Hollander as a child. The article seems to be based on extensive interviews with Hollander and includes some of his personal thoughts and philosophy on music.
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This full text article by Peter Eckstein is part of a larger study by the author of technological pioneers and their childhoods. He looks at the experience of Jay Forrester growing up on a ranch in rural Nebraska. Forrester's tinkering there ultimately led him to lead the MIT team that developed Whirlwind and to invent the first commercially viable RAM.
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This full text article explains that Louis Malcom Hutson, III, was a 2002 Davidson Fellow. It gives a brief summary of his project that earned him this honor. The article is an acknowledgement that a Duke Talent Identification Program student has made a noteworthy accomplishment.
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This full text article describes a new set of recordings of composer William Walton. It is excerpted from the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. There is a brief blurb about Christopher Falzone, a pianist who received a 2002 Davidson Fellows award at the end of the article.
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