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William Torrey Harris
William Torrey Harris starts it all off! We see the first attempt at differentiating education for the gifted/talented children. -
Worcester, Mass.
The first school (unnamed) geared towards gifted education opens its doors in Worcester, Mass. -
Lewis Terman
The "father" of gifted education, Lewis Terman, changes education forever when he published his revison of Binet-Simon and called it the Stanford-Binet Test. This is significant because schools finally had a way to test student intelligence. -
Leta Hollingworth
The "mother" of gifted education, Leta Hollingworth, is the first person to use the term "gifted" when discussing academically advanced children. Between 1926 and 1936, Ms. Hollingworth wrote the first textbook on gifted education and opened a gifted school in New York that catered to exceptional children between the ages of 7 and 9. -
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 focused all of its attention on students considered to be lower level learners and took the focus and funding away from gifted learning; therefore, the advancements that could have been made in both areas were, instead, only focused on one group. -
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Failed Attempts
During this ten year span, two attempts were made to help identify and serve our gifted/talented children. In 1983 there was A Nation at Risk and in 1993 there was National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent. -
A Nation Deceived
In 2004, a report was published called A Nation Deceived. In this the public is informed that there is insufficient support for our gifted/talented students and explains that we are not meeting the needs of these amazing students.
