A Newsletter on High Intelligence and Its Impacts.
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Notice that I don’t use the word “schools” but use the singular “school.” Very few schools understand or provide for the differences among their students. These issues come up in every kind of school, even expensive or “best” schools. It’s not just in intellectual abilities but in what intrinsically motivates and works for different personalities and ways of being. Gifted Through the Lifespan is a…
How schools, access, and opportunity shape gifted people of every age
I’m an investigative author who looks into why people turn out the ways that they do.
It’s About the Sense of Belonging, Learning, and Well-Being
Most pre-school and elementary schools aren't ready for your gifted child's needs.
How to interpret ability testing in context
And with boys, in particular, they may not be developmentally ready to work with pencils
They Can Tell you Numbers and Percentiles: Then What?
Why People Emigrate, Immigrate, and Migrate for Opportunity
Why Friendship and Romance Need Adult Support
… and funding becomes unavailable even though the citizens in those states still have to send in tax dollars to support those agencies ..
It's about working together and not ordering the teenager to do what you want.
A podcast interview with Deborah Ruf, PhD, on her work and Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration
