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• Gifted Students Still Receiving Little Attention Within Educational System

  
  Top Colleges Blog — Authority: 148
  According to a report by the National Association for Gifted Children entitled “State of the States in Gifted Education,” opportunities for gifted students are being reduced for two major reasons. First, the amount of federal funding available for education is already too small and, second, the majority of the ...
  2 days ago

• NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS FOR GODLESS PEOPLE – Extra Date Added 20th December 2009

  
  The Skeptic: Blog — Authority: 462
  NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS FOR GODLESS PEOPLE – A RATIONAL CELEBRATION FOR CHRISTMAS The HMV Hammersmith Apollo, London   20th December An Extra Date Added due to Popular Demand Tickets are available for the return of 2008’s sold out show of science, song and some interpretative dance. This is ...
  3 days ago

• Good Mothers Dress Their Children Accordingly

  
  Queen of Shake Shake — Authority: 115
  Tell me, would you let your kid wear shorts to school when it’s 40 degrees outside, raining, and will get no warmer than 50? Maybe my Canadian readers shouldn’t answer that because you hear 50 degrees and think, oh, summer! But down here on the gulf coast where our pits stay sweaty 10 months out the year, ...
  5 days ago

• Gifted Education: Stress with Joy

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 546
  “Let’s get Kevin! He’s a reader!” From the earliest days of kindergarten, my child was labeled by teachers and others. At every birthday party he was called on to read birthday cards. No matter what the spelling words, they were always too easy. No matter what the math concept, he already knew it. Gifted ...
  6 days ago

• My Child is Gifted, What Do I Do Now?

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 546
  After my last post on homeschooling gifted children , several HOTM readers wondered what to do next. So you’ve preliminarily assessed your child’s personality and abilities, and you think she might be gifted. Regardless of whether her IQ is abnormally high or whether she would qualify for membership in MENSA, ...
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• Fergie on choosing music over Harvard and her drug use

  
  Talent Development Resources Talent Development Resources the psychology of creativity, personal growth, gifted/talented adults — Authority: 423
  A London Times article notes that Stacy Ann Ferguson and her group the Black Eyed Peas have had “a record-breaking consecutive 26 weeks at the top of the US singles chart.” Here is more from the article : Fergie could have gone to Harvard if she’d fancied it… straight As, the stint as president of her ...
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• Unraveling the Paradox: When Creative and Gifted Students Underachieve

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Have you ever met a child, or perhaps you have one of your own, who is rebellious, argumentative, selfish, stubborn, and independent, yet is incredibly intelligent or even gifted? Sometimes socially undesirable characteristics and creativity or giftedness go hand in hand. Of course not all rebellious kids are gifted, ...
  1 week ago

• WTF: Test Prep for Preschoolers?!

  
  MomLogic — Authority: 533
  Heres yet another phenomenon in the paranoia surrounding preschool.
  1 week ago

• Winstanley on Homeschooling Gifted Children

  
  Homeschooling Research Notes — Authority: 107
  This post reviews Carrie Winstanley, “Too Cool for School? Gifted Children and Homeschooling” in Theory and Research in Education 7, no. 3 (November 2009): 347-362 Winstanley , Principal Lecturer in Education at Roehampton University in London,  here argues that gifted children form a distinct group of ...
  1 week ago

• So those percolating ideas?

  
  Raising Smart Girls — Authority: 123
  I have to thank my friend Heather for this comment, that kept nagging my brain ever since she wrote it.Do you really think that your research and knowledge is only valuable if you get paid for it? I find that the more I research about the topics that help me and my family, we are [...]
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• ADHD Can Be a Misdiagnosis

  
  MomLogic — Authority: 533
  If teachers have been saying your kid could have ADHD, hold off on the Ritalin. His behavior could be a symptom of something else.
  2 weeks ago

• Gifted Students Still Left Behind

  
  State of Ohio Education Blog — Authority: 126
  I wish I could say that I was surprised by this story, but I wasnt. The Associated Press points out how geography is destiny when it comes to gifted education. Gifted students, especially those students in urban and poor rural communities, are often "left behind" when it comes to the availability of gifted ...
  2 weeks ago

• That restless mind

  
  Raising Smart Girls — Authority: 123
  It’s 2:18 am. I can’t sleep.I’m not awake because I’m anxious about anything. Everyone is relatively healthy, although little one, E, has a cold and I am starting to get one and my throat is sore. But that’s not why I’m awake.I’m awake because I’m wondering how many others have sleep issues, [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Gifted Children....more questions - but where are the answers???

  
  ~ A Brighter Tomorrow's ~ "Bright Beginnings" — Authority: 104
  I found this article online today about gifted children. This topic keeps coming up from my clients and from the parents of some of my young clients. A trending topic...lets see how many I can find this week.
  2 weeks ago

• ZYDECO HELLRAISERS

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — Authority: 104
  What happens to Attention Deficit Disorder when it grows up? Sometimes it is channeled into extraordinary gifts. So Michael Phelps Picasso JFK James Carville Robin Williams… …are all reputed ADHD guys. This is hardly an exhaustive list but it’s enough to give you a flavor. I think if they named every ...
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• University Programs for Gifted Kids

  
  The HomeScholar Blog — Authority: 423
  It’s very difficult to balance the academic needs of gifted children.  How do you know when they should take classes outside the home?Lee,I have enjoyed your newsletters for over a year but... Need more help homeschooling high school? Check out www.TheHomeScholar.com to learn more.
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• Parenting: Do You Want a Gifted or Hard-working Child?

  
  The Power of Prime — Authority: 447
  Giftedness is revered in our culture; inborn talent-whether intellectual, athletic, or artistic-ensures that children will be successful. How many times have you heard "Tiger Woods was born to play golf" or "Sarah Chang was destined to be a brilliant violinist"? Well, let me clear something up: No one is born to do ...
  2 weeks ago

• You’re intense, complex, and driven because you’re gifted

  
  Talent Development Resources Talent Development Resources the psychology of creativity, personal growth, gifted/talented adults — Authority: 423
  Excerpt from The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius , by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen. To feel like an outsider, to constantly pressure yourself to hold back your gifts in order to fit in or avoid disapproval, to erroneously believe that you are overly sensitive, compulsively ...
  3 weeks ago

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