Accelerated Learning
FEATURED GRANT
Cogito.org: Website and Newsletter for Young People Gifted in Mathematics and Science
Dr. Linda Brody, Director, Study of Exceptional Talent
Center For Talented Youth [CTY]
This
grant supports the establishment of a state-of-the-art website and newsletter
to attract and engage the world's brightest young people between the ages
8-18 interested in the areas of mathematics and science. The project
includes online conversations with award-winning scientists and medal
winners, news information on upcoming worldwide competitions and enrichment
programs, and access to professional journals through Johns Hopkins University
library system.
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Sample Grants
| Grant Title |
Award Date |
Grant Amount |
| |
- Templeton National Report on Acceleration
Professor
Nicholas Colangelo, Director
The
Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted
Education & Talent Development
Dr.
Susan G. Assouline, Associate Director
Belin-Blank
International Center for Gifted Education
Professor
Miraca U.M. Gross
Department
of Education, University of New South Wales (Sydney AU) - The result
of this research grant was the publication and dissemination of A Nation
Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students, the
two-volume Templeton National Report on Acceleration. The Report synthesizes
research on academic acceleration and includes a "call to action" for
national policy makers, educators and parents. A Nation Deceived was
featured in
Time Magazine, Sept. 27, 2004.
|
September 2002 |
$361,800 |
- Radical Acceleration of Highly Gifted Children: An Annotated Bibliography of International Research
Professor Miraca U.M. Gross, Department of Education
University of New South Wales (Australia)
- This grant supported the research, publication and dissemination of the first-ever annotated bibliography of international research on highly gifted children who graduate from high school three or more years early. The foreword for the publication is written by Dr. Julian Stanley, Jr., Professor Emeritus, and the Founding Director of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at The Johns Hopkins University.
|
January 2002 |
$32,958 |
- Neuropsychology of Creative Intelligence: An Investigation of Creative Intelligence and its Application to the Education of Gifted Children
Professor John Gregory Geake, Director of Doctoral Studies
Westminster Institute of Education
Oxford Brookes University (Oxford UK)
- This research grant provided support for an extensive bibliographic review of the literature on creative intelligence, including the articulation of a robust theoretical model of creative intelligence and its relationship to academic giftedness. The research project also includes a neuroimaging study of creative intelligence in gifted subjects undertaken in collaboration with the Centre for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain at the University of Oxford.
|
July 2003 |
$62,962 |
