Exploring Passion, Creativity, and Intelligence
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 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 …
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 …
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 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 …
Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the noted civil rights champion of the United States, stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and addressed a crowd of 250,000 civil rights supporters. At the Read More …
Martin Manley, a sports statistician and member of the “Triple Nine Society” whose IQ ranked him in the 99.9th percentile, committed suicide August 15, 2013 on what was his 60th birthday. His suicide coincided with the release of a complex Read More …
On July 16, 2013, five separate trademark applications were filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for protection of the phrase “Registered Gifted.” While this might seem like a move an organization such as the National Association for Read More …
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 …
The successful strategies used by six urban school systems across the country to boost African-American student participation in and performance on Advanced Placement tests are detailed in a new report released today by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. The Read More …