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The first school for gifted children opens in Massachusetts
This is significant because it shows the beginning of educators' focus on gifted students. -
Lewis Terman publishes the Stanford-Binet
Lewis Terman was considered the father of gifted education. He focused on finding excelling students based on IQ scores. Terman was interested in studying these students and watching them develop over time. -
Leta Hollingworth begins gifted education
Hollingworth used the Stanford-Binet scale to find gifted students so that she could enrich their education. -
Julian C Stanley meets a student named Joe
Joe influenced Stanley in many ways. Stanley became much more passionate about gifted education after seeing Joe's potential and watching him thrive. Stanley went on to develop new measures to find gifted students and to provide them services. -
Stanley founds the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY)
This became an extensive movement to search for students who excelled in math so that they could participate in more appropriate educational services. The group of people involved in this movement continued to create ways to search for gifted and talented children. -
The Office of the Gifted and Talented, a sector of the U.S. Office of Education, receives official status
This event shows that gifted and talented education finally began to be recognized on a national level. Gifted and talented education became part of the focus of educational policy from this point forward.
