(Today's blog entry is dedicated to the late Sharon Lind, a passionate defender of and guide for the gifted, whose succinct explanations of Dabrowski continue to echo in my head ( Read more... )

I am starting with my edit, because while this is an addendum to my thoughts on the funding issue, this is the most vital piece of the response to me.

Why advocating for the gifted in underfunded schools and where kids are in poverty is VITAL
a) Raising the top students of a school tends to raise the whole school more than any other approach we ( Read more... )

I was at the New England Conference for Gifted and Talented for a while, yesterday. While I was there, I picked up a few books that had been on my list for a while. The books are Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits by Deirdre Lovecky; The Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids: ( Read more... )