Roeper Review back issues from March 2002:
From the editor's desk.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Welcome to volume 24, number 3 of the Roeper Review. This is a special issue that has been in the works for quite some time. James Borland, Dawn Horton, Rena Subotnik, Shiang-Jiun Chen, Miran Chun, Cathy Freeman, Sabrina Goldberg and Julie Yu served as guest editors. The issue includes ...
Ability grouping and acceleration of gifted students: articles from the Roeper Review.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2002; ... This volume contains articles from past issues of the Roeper Review focusing on two critical issues in gifted education: ability grouping and acceleration. The intended audience is parents and teachers of gifted students. Although parents and teachers are among those who subscribe to and ...
Ability grouping.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
Mar 22, 2002 ... There are few topics in education as controversial as ability grouping and probably none more so. Few aspects of American education have been studied as extensively or as inconclusively as this one. If one is determined to find research evidence that ability grouping is educationally ...
In search of reality: unraveling the myths about tracking, ability grouping, and the gifted.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Educational bandwagons are a dime a dozen. Educators want to be on the cutting edge of educational improvement and are concerned about excellence in education and about providing programs that help their students. The last thing any educator wants to do is to be responsible for educational ...
Mainstreaming the gifted: historical perspectives on excellence and equity.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
Mar 22, 2002; ... In South Carolina, as in many other states, a major educational policy issue is how to identify and educate gifted students. Although South Carolina does not yet provide certification for teachers in gifted, that possibility is raised frequently by such groups as teacher education colleges ...
Conferences.(Brief Article)
Mar 22, 2002 ... <Pre> The Sixth Biennial Wallace National Research Symposium on Talent Development May 19-21, 2002 The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa www.uiowa.edu/~belinctr/researchsym 800/336-6463; 319/335-6196 Confratute July 8-19, 2002 University of Connecticut Storrs, ...
A comparison study of student attitudes and perceptions in homogeneous and heterogeneous classrooms.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Since the first known programs designed to group students by ability were implemented on this continent in 1867, debate has persisted concerning the appropriate organization of the education system to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of all students. The issue of whether a ...
Glimpses of a highly gifted child in a heterogeneous classroom.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Scholars and laymen alike continue to demonstrate a keen interest in the highly gifted, as exemplified by the research literature focusing on such children. Hollingworth's (1942) landmark study includes a wealth of data on the achievements and interactions of highly gifted students in ...
Serving gifted students through inclusion.(Ability Grouping and Acceleration)
Mar 22, 2002; ... The Story Being in Georgia at the time of the Olympics provides an opportunity to observe and reflect upon the kind of selection and training that goes into making world class athletes ready to compete at the international level. They are usually selected at an early age and ...
Book review of Tracking: Conflicts and Resolutions by A. T. Lockwood.
Mar 22, 2002; ... Lockwood, A.T. (1996). Tracking: Conflicts and resolutions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, $12.95 (pb). ISBN 0803962681. The tracking and ability grouping literature falls into three categories: policy statements based on philosophy/ideology, policy statements based on research, and ...
Acceleration.(education)
Mar 22, 2002 ... Acceleration is perhaps one of the most misunderstood practices in education, especially with respect to its potential consequences for students who experience it. Before discussing the myths that have grown up around acceleration, we should define what it is and describe some of the forms ...
Alternatives to acceleration for the highly gifted child.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 22, 2002; ... Children seldom fit neatly in to boxes, even when we group them in the hope that they will. It is convenient to educate children selected for homogeneity, but the more highly gifted the group, the less likely they are to fit into pre-arranged profiles. Part of the problem is ...
A personal record: is acceleration worth the effort?
Mar 22, 2002; ... We have three children: a girl born in 1972, a boy born in 1975, and a girl born in 1979. The eldest is now 11 and has entered the eighth grade. She has studied French (in which her accent is beautiful) and algebra. She has developed self-aware friendships with three older girls and has ...
The progress and problems of an incredibly talented sister and brother.
Mar 22, 2002; ... R, a Talented Young Lady Born in April 1967, R talked in paragraphs at age 2. Telling the story of Peter and the Wolf one day, she stopped in midsentence to exclaim, "What the duck should have done was stay in the middle of the water so the wolf couldn't get him." Her first ...
A decade of longitudinal research on academic acceleration through the study of mathematically precocious youth.
Mar 22, 2002; ... Academic acceleration can be defined as "[educational] flexibility based on individual abilities without regard for age" (Paulus, 1984, p. 98). Noted methods of acceleration include early entrance to school, grade skipping, fast-paced classes in certain subjects, college courses for ...
Follow-up insights on rapid educational acceleration.
Mar 22, 2002; ... Since 1969, the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) and the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), which I created in 1979 independent of SMPY, have been finding and helping boys and girls who reason exceptionally well mathematically (Stanley, Keating, & Fox, 1974; Lubinski & Benbow, ...
A summary of research regarding early entrance to college. (1).
Mar 22, 2002; ... Introduction Among the options for gifted students to obtain appropriately challenging instruction is early entrance to college. Entering college before the usual age has long been used by individual students to accommodate their learning needs (see Brody & Stanley, 1991 for ...
The progress of gifted students in a rural district that emphasized acceleration strategies.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 22, 2002; ... For a number of reasons rural schools may have difficulty in establishing and maintaining coherent programs for gifted students. There may be too few students in certain rural schools to warrant the establishment of special classrooms for the gifted and because they are often poorly ...
Tending the special spark: accelerated and enriched curricula for highly talented art students.
Mar 22, 2002; ... Israel's proposed residential high school for students gifted in the arts and sciences will "tend the special spark in talented youngsters, equipping them to lead Israel's scientific, artistic and community life ... those who have, within themselves, the greatest potential in arts or ...
Guidelines for grade advancement of precocious children.
Mar 22, 2002; ... A major educational need of gifted and talented youth, as for all students, is for instruction in the basic skill areas and the standard disciplines at a level and pace which challenges, but does not exceed, their potential. Feldhusen and Klausmeier (1959), Klausmeier and Feldhusen (1959), ...
Gifted preschoolers: parent and teacher views on identification, early admission, and programming.
Mar 22, 2002; ... Editor's Note: This article has been modified from the original at the author's request. The need for identification of and intervention with those who have special needs at an early age is critical to improving the chances for optimal development (Guralnick & Bennett, 1987) ....