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Early Entrance Foundation: Upcoming Events and News
Upcoming Events
Upcoming WCGTC conference -- 18th biannual:
August 3-7, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada
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Upcoming NAGC convention -- 56th annual:
November 5-8, 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri
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Upcoming SENG conference -- 26th annual:
July 17-19, 2009 in Orlando, Florida
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Upcoming CAG convention -- 47th annual:
February 15-17, 2009
in Anaheim, California
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National and Local News Articles of Interest
Young, Gifted and Skipping High School -- The Washington Post, December 2, 2007. "The school [Mary Baldwin] offers students as young as 12 a jump-start on college in one of the leading programs of its kind. By all accounts, they are ready for the leap socially and emotionally, and they crave it academically." Click here for the complete article.
Are We Failing Our Geniuses? -- TIME Magazine August 16, 2007. "In a no-child-left-behind conception of public education, lifting everyone up to a minimum level is more important than allowing students to excel to their limit. It has forced schools to deeply subsidize the education of the least gifted, and gifted programs have suffered." Click here for the complete article.
My Son Is A High School Dropout -- and Proud of it! - Mensa Bulletin, February 2007. An alternative for the bored bright kid in your life. Click here for the complete article.
Rhodes Scholar 2007 - 2001 CSULA graduate Leana Wen learned in November 2006 that she was one of the ultra-select group of 32 graduate students receiving the 2007 Rhodes scholarship. Click here for the complete article.
The Prodigy Puzzle - Ann Hulbert's November 20, 2005 New York Times Magazine article about profoundly gifted children. Focusing on Davidson fellows, she examines the history of research on giftedness, radical acceleration (including CSULA EEP), current educational opportunities, and intelligence testing. Click here for the article.
A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students - America's schools routinely avoid academic acceleration, the easiest and most effective way to help highly capable students. While the popular perception is that a child who skips a grade will be socially stunted, fifty years of research shows that moving bright students ahead often makes them happy. Click here for the interactive Nation Deceived website, with the full report on acceleration.
Saving The Smart Kids - TIME Magazine September 27, 2004 by John Cloud. "If the work is not challenging for these high-ability kids, they will become invisible. We will lose them. We already are." "A 2001 study found that 70% of kids who skipped ahead had no regrets." Click here for complete article.
Early Start - Gifted Education Communicator, Fall/Winter 2003, by Richard S. Maddox. An article for the CAG Journal describing the EEP Program at CSULA. "It is reasonable, if not absolutely necessary, to understand that such a program is not the right choice for all highly gifted students but it is viewed by the majority of EEP alumni as the only choice that would have allowed them to reach their potential as scholars and as people." Click here for complete article.
Could the Next Einstein be in Your Class? - Davidson Institute, 2001 brochure. Characteristics of profoundly gifted children, and suggested academic options. For a pdf online version, please click here.
But What About the Prom? - Gifted Child Quarterly, Spring 1992 by Kathleen Noble and Julie Drummond. An article for the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), addressing students' perceptions of the Early College Entrance Program at the University of Washington. Click here for complete article. For a link to all of the research on the University of Washington EEP, please click here.
News articles about EEP and EEP students:
5/9/1984,
6/9/1990,
1/10/1991,
12/26/1991,
6/11/1992,
10/21/1992,
8/23/1995,
9/4/1997,
11/3/1997,
12/18/1998,
2/26/2000,
3/26/2000,
6/15/2003,
Fall 2003
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