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Sort by:     SKU     Product     Price      Default     See details Ability or Achievement SKU: G-05 From the very beginning of the study of giftedness, there has been confusion between the concepts of ability and achievement. Educators, psychologists and the person on the street all think of giftedness as the attainment of glory, or at least the “potential” to achieve fame in the world... Our price: $2.00  Buy Now  See details Gifted Education: An Endangered Species SKU: G-20 At 2 weeks old, Jessica smiled on cue. At 14 months, she spoke in sentences and had a vocabulary of over 250 words...What happens when children like Jessie enter school? Our price: $3.50  Buy Now  See details Myths About the Gifted SKU: G-25 What are gifted children really like? Are the puny weaklings with two left feet? Are they prone to physical and mental illness? Are they all social misfits?...No, none of the above is true. Yet misconceptions like these abound... Our price: $2.50  Buy Now  See details Scapegoating the Gifted: The New National Sport SKU: G-30 Advocating for the gifted has always been risky business in American society, as if it were somehow anti-American to suggest that gifted children might have special needs... Our price: $2.50  Buy Now  See details The Gifted and Talented SKU: G-15 Attitudes toward the gifted and talentedin the United States have been on a perpetual roller coaster. This group has been alternately applauded, attacked, "mined" as a natural resource, and abandoned... Our price: $10.00  Buy Now  See details The True Meaning of Giftedness SKU: G-40 Giftedness is asynchronous development in which advanced cognitive abilities and heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm... Our price: $1.50  Buy Now  See details The Unmet Needs of the Gifted SKU: G-45 ...In our fierce deesire for equality of opportunity for all, we have inadvertently discriminated against children of high ability... Our price: $3.50  Buy Now  See details Through the Lens of Giftedness SKU: G-35 ...Is it a drive to achieve? Not necessarily. ..The gifted Self is driven by both curiosity and the need for expression... Our price: $4.00  Buy Now  See details Ways You Can Help Keep Gifted Education Alive SKU: G-50 It takes active participation of parents to create, maintain and strengthen programs for the gifted... Our price: $1.00  Buy Now