Barbara Sand provides an excerpt from Teaching Genius: Dorothy DeLay and the Making of a Musician. The book provides an overview of Dorothy Delay's teaching principles. This excerpt focuses on the messages we send to our children. The review discusses how your parenting strategies can change who your children become and discusses strategies to relate to your children. ...
This article by Roberta Staley describes some of the situations faced by profoundly gifted young people and their families. Staley relates many interesting anecdotes and commentaries. The article advocates for increased recognition of the importance and value of these gifted young people. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of The Re-forming of Gifted Education by Karen Rogers. From her analysis of research that spans a full century, Dr. Rogers describes various types of gifted children, as well as options for school enrichment and acceleration. She reports the effectiveness for each option according to the research. From her years of experience consulting with schools, she shows parents and teachers practical ways to design ongoing programs that best meet the needs of bright children. ...
BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Author Dr. David White has provided teachers an engaging way to help students work through many philosophical theories and questions. The Examined Life: Advanced Philosophy for Kids, is divided into three sections which focus on readings that will encourage classroom debate, activities that apply philosophical theories to critical thinking, language and the arts, and suggestions on how teachers can become more reflective philosophers themselves ...
This article by Monique Lloyd explains "Many parents feel powerless when dealing with their public schools; this is especially true of parents with highly gifted children. I reached my end-point the day I realized I had a file drawer full of records of meetings, phone calls, and letters with school officials going back six years. For six years I'd tried to get school officials to understand that not challenging my children and others like them was hurting them. They hadn't listened. My children were still suffering." ...
In this article by Daniel Singal "A college professor looks at the forgotten victims of our mediocre educational system, the potentially high achievers whose SAT scores have fallen, and who read less, understand less of what they read, and know less than the top students of a generation ago." This, according to Singal is the second, less visible crisis in American education. The first is the plight of disadvantaged children in inner-city schools. ...