A year ago, autism was all about spotting the signs and early intervention. Today, autism has reached a new level of awareness as people and companies discover untapped potential in this growing, underutilized population. Nowhere is this more evident than at Exceptional Read More …
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Gifted and Talented Academy Students become Future Problem Solvers
To help students prepare for an upcoming Future Problem Solving competition, law enforcement officials with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection visited students at Fort Bend Independent School District’s Gifted and Talented Academy to discuss their role in surveillance of Read More …
The National Endowment for the Arts Announces $25.8 Million in Grants for the First Round of FY 2014 Funding
Washington, DC—NEA Senior Deputy Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced this past week that 1,083 grants totaling $25.8 million will be awarded to organizations and individuals across the country for grants in the categories of Art Works, Challenge America, and Creative Writing Read More …
Gifted Youth Invited to Join American Mensa
October is Mensa Membership Month, and American Mensa is using the occasion to remind the gifted and talented community that children and adolescents of exceptional intelligence are welcome in the organization. Membership in Mensa is open to anyone who achieves Read More …
Madonna Announces Art For Freedom Grants Program
Madonna has announced a grants program in coordination with Art For Freedom, the global digital initiative designed to fuel free speech, to address, respond and protest persecution around the world. Madonna kicked off Art For Freedom on September 24, 2013 by posting Secretprojectrevolution, a Read More …
Dartmouth Researchers Discover How and Where Imagination Occurs in Human Brains
Philosophers and scientists have long puzzled over where human imagination comes from. In other words, what makes humans able to create art, invent tools, think scientifically and perform other incredibly diverse behaviors? The answer, Dartmouth researchers conclude in a new Read More …
New North Carolina PAGE Organization Advocates and Supports Gifted Education in Guilford County
It began simply with one parent’s question about her academically gifted child’s education and blossomed into the formation of Guilford County PAGE, an affiliate of the North Carolina Association for the Gifted and Talented (NCAGT). Today, Guilford County PAGE, which Read More …
Poverty Lowers IQ, Study Shows
Poverty and all its related concerns require so much mental energy that the poor have less remaining brainpower to devote to other areas of life, according to research based at Princeton University. As a result, people of limited means are Read More …
TALENT Act Charts New Course for Gifted, High-Ability Students
A bipartisan bill introduced this week in the U.S. House of Representatives shifts the education debate in Washington, D.C., towards a focus on gifted, high-ability students—particularly those from low-income or minority backgrounds—who have been overshadowed in a federal educational system Read More …
Top Five Signs That You May Have an Advanced Learner; K12, Inc. Highlights New, Challenging Online Programs to Engage Gifted Students
Advanced learners. They’re the ones who breeze through class and find themselves bored, or the young writers who compose complex sentences using advanced vocabulary. According to the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), there are an estimated three million academically Read More …