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Templeton National Report on Acceleration

Project Leader(s)

Nicholas Colangelo, Director
The Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education & Talent Development

Susan G. Assouline, Associate Director
Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education

Miraca U.M. Gross
Department of Education, University of New South Wales

Grantee(s)
University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)
Description

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.

Grant Amount:
$361,800
Start Date:
September 2002
End Date:
February 2006
Grant ID:
10493
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