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Links to Gifted Education Policy Web sites and Tables of Contents for the most recent issues of major journals in gifted education

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• Adolescent Pathways to Eminence in Science: Lessons from the Music Conservatory .pdf [907 kb]
  The purposes of this study were to explore the critical variables that contribute to the transformation of extraordinary talent in music into professional artistry and to offer insights into restructuring the way that we meet the needs ofacademically gifted youth based on the success of the conservatory system.


• Toward a Science of Educational Practice .pdf [121 kb]
  In the past, educators had little coursework and background in research, and they seldom followed it closely. They often chose programs because of traditions, fads, and developer claims.If science is to help improve schools, educators must be better prepared.


• The Teacher Education Report Card: Title II of HEA .pdf [639 kb]
  Data about teacher preparation and quality seem to be everywhere these days. But it wasn't always this way. In fact, information about teachers' level of preparedness when they completed education school programs was remarkably hard to come' by as recently as six years ago.


• Out of School Science Programs for Talented Students: A Comparison .pdf [458 kb]
  Six categories of out of school science programs for talented students are described in relation to six criteria: method of selection, goals, structure, benefits, drawbacks, and predictions about participants' future in science. The context for development of this analysis is described as well as suggested directions for the future.


• Developing National Policies in STEM Talent Development: Obstacles and Opportunities .pdf [927 kb]
  The goal is to analyze the current U.S. approach to serving adolescents who are talented and interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We close by posing a challenge to our colleagues, restoring the appeal of STEM careers for our talented youth, and offer insights and opportunities for talented youth, and the obstacles and opportunities that exist in our colleagues' own nations.


• Identifying and Developing Talent in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM):
  An Agenda for Research, Policy, and Practice .pdf [224 kb]
  A summary of ideas on addressing STEM (Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology) talent development among adolescents.


• The Board of Directors Task Force on the Impact of Elementary and Secondary School Zero Tolerance Policies .pdf [593kb]
  At the 2006 APA Convention, the Zero Tolerance Task Force report was accepted by the Council of Representatives with a recommendation for adoption as APA policy. The Task Force examined and made recommendations on the development and implementation of Zero Tolerance policies in elementary and secondary schools.
  Read more: APA Press Release and USA Today
  More on the Task Force


• Optimizing Student Success in School with the Other Three Rs:Reasoning, Resilience, and Responsibility
  Robert J. Sternberg, Yale University, and Rena F. Subotnik, American Psychological Association
  A volume in the series: Research in Educational Productivity. Series Editor: Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago.
  The Other Three R’s model began as an American Psychological Association (APA) initiative, sponsored by Robert J. Sternberg, IBM Professor of Psychology and Education at Yale University and Past President of the APA. For both this initiative and this edited volume, Sternberg assembled a diverse team of experts who identified reasoning, resilience and responsibility as three learnable skills that, when taken together, have great potential for increasing academic success. The authors of this volume present in detail their evidence-based arguments for promoting TOTRs in schools as a way to optimize student success.
  
  Learn more about the Other Three Rs at the Other Three Rs Homepage.



• The Scientific Basis of Educational Productivity
  Rena F. Subotnik, American Psychological Association, and Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago
  This volume, is not primarily concerned with what students should learn, nor even how they should learn. Rather, how we can discover the best means and conditions for teaching them in school, at home, and in society. More explicitly, we seek to find out how students can learn efficiently or productively as much as possible within a given amount of time and resources.
  
  The intended audiences are not only scholars in a variety of academic disciplines but also research consumers, including educators, policymakers, parents, and citizens who seek principles to critically separate valid from invalid claims for the efficacy and efficiency of education products, personnel, and policies.



• The Scientific Basis of Educational Productivity
  Proceedings and Recommendations from a National Invitational Conference
  Rena F. Subotnik, American Psychological Association, and Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago
  

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