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Programs Benefitting Gifted Students In Charleston, Illinois, Dorothy L. Swartzbaugh
Programs Benefitting Gifted Students In Charleston, Illinois, Dorothy L. Swartzbaugh
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This field work experience for the Specialist degree in Educational Administration at Eastern Illinois University involved a study of the gifted program in Charleston, Illinois, seen from two aspects: the state reimbursed gifted program as well as the local school's independent effort for its top students. The writer's method of inquiry combined library research and 40 interviews with teachers, administrators, and authorities on gifted students.
At first the term "giftedness" had to be defined. The word has grown from the original meaning of "intellectual or academic aptitude," based on intelligence tests, to a meaning so broad as to be scarcely …