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What's New in 1999?
December 1999
 | Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Twice Exceptional
Students, in Twice Exceptional and
Books |
| Products
 | Roger's Connection magnetic construction system |
| StartRight penmanship program |
|
| ALPS Publishing, in Publishers |
| Another new one, in You Know You're The Parent
of a Gifted Child When... |
| Stupidity like this hurts our children, in
Ridiculous Things I Heard Today |
| Academic Programs
| Is Distance Education any Good? - a collection of articles and
research |
| TalentEd Virtual Enrichment Program (TEdVEP) |
| Aphelion, school without walls |
| The Trent Schools |
|
| Make Shapes 1, 2 and 3, by Gerald Jenkins, in
Hot Topics! |
| Kids and Teens Links
| Aurora Borealis section, Albert Einstein section, Society of Young
Magicians (S.Y.M.) in Variety Shop, Chandra X-ray Observatory |
|
| Added the list of applicable states for each United States talent
search, in Talent Searches |
| The Iron Giant, in Movies |
| It must be the season for Stupidity!, in Ridiculous Things I Heard Today
|
| Early College
| National Academy of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (NAASE) at the
University of Iowa |
| Georgia Academy at University of West Georgia |
| Get Out of Jail Free... list of concurrent enrollment and early
colleges for gifted kids, U.S. and Canadian! |
| Eliminate Age Discrimination in Our Schools - Now! and in
Kids
Speak Out and Advocacy |
|
| Another new one, in You
Know You're The Parent of a Gifted Child When... |
| Mentorship: The Essential Guide for Schools and Business, in Mentors
and Books |
| Capsela, and more, in Products |
| University of North Texas (also available on-line!), in Continuing
Gifted Education |
| ISEF2000 - Detroit, Michigan - May 7-13, 2000, in Contests
and Awards |
| The Mega Foundation, in Organizations
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| Here's a good one!, in Ridiculous Things I Heard Today
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| Hot Topics!
| A Tour of the Subatomic Zoo : A Guide to Particle Physics |
| From Zero to Infinity : What Makes Numbers Interesting |
| The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the
Quest for the Ultimate Theory |
| Ender's Game |
| Ender's Shadow (both in Science Fiction) |
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| Kids and Teens Links
| EarthJourneys, Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids, Space links,
SAT Question of the Day |
| Lessons & Ideas for K'nex, Legos, Lego Mindstorms, & Capsela,
also in Internet
Investigations! |
|
| Two new Amazing Space units, in Internet
Investigations! |
| TAGPDQ mailing list for parents discussing radical accommodations,
in On-Line Support |
| Updated Space Camp Brightest Stars link, in Summer
and Saturday Programs |
November 1999
| Analogy Anthology
- many different analogies for giftedness..., in Highly Gifted and Young
Children and Identification |
| Don Cohen - The Mathman, publisher of Calculus by and for Young People,
and lots more math materials, in Publishers
|
| In Girls and Books
and a new section in Hot
Topics
| Girls and Young Women Leading the Way: 20 True Stories About
Leadership |
| Girls and Young Women: 20 True Stories About Inventors Plus How You
Can Be One Yourself |
| Girls and Young Women Entrepreneurs: True Stories About Starting and
Running a Business Plus How You Can Do It Yourself |
| Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare |
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| A common but amazing stupidity, plus several more, in Ridiculous Things I Heard Today
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| Another new one, plus an older kids' section, in You
Know You're The Parent of a Gifted Child When... |
| Products
| Zome Systems, Binary Arts puzzles, Quiddler and Five Crowns |
|
| Musings on our report
card (bring a tissue), in Highly Gifted and Young Children and
Identification |
| Reading Lists for Kids
(now separate from Kids
Magazines)
| Smithsonian Magazine Notable Children's Book Lists, and
EagerReaders.com |
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| Conferences
| Recognizing, Nurturing, and Respecting the Potential that is
Giftedness, Columbia, MO March-April 2000 |
| Jim Delisle speaking in San Diego, CA, January 2000 |
| Annemarie Roeper Symposium, September 2000 |
| New Jersey Association for Gifted Children 9th Annual Gifted
Conference, March 2000 |
| Advocacy for Gifted and Talented Education in New York State XXIV,
October 2000 |
| Nebraska Association for the Gifted, February 2000 and February 2001 |
|
| New section, Biographies, in Kids
and Teens Links |
| Davidson Young Scholars Program, in Organizations
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| My Mockingbird,
by Ruthie, in Success Stories |
| IEPs According to
Dr. Seuss in A Lighter Note |
| Schools for the Gifted
| Eagle School, Madison WI |
| The Odyssey School, San Mateo, CA |
| The Peabody School, Charlottesville, VA |
| Web site for Rocky Mountain School, CO |
| Web site for Nueva School, CA |
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| Hot Topics!
| A History of Us, by Joy Hakim (11 volumes) |
| Young Oxford History of Women in the United States (11 volumes) |
| Metropolis: Ten Cities: Ten Centuries (a big hit with the Visual
Spatial types!) |
|
| Communication: its impact on self-esteem and underachievement in the
gifted child, in Social
Emotional |
| SET (Study of Exceptional Talent) Academic Competition list, in Contests
and Awards |
| More information on Hollingworth conference, Newton (Boston) MA, May
2000, in Conferences |
| New mailing list for parents of gifted children in Tennessee, in On-Line
Support |
October 1999
| Arguments from the
Other Side
| Promotional intelligence - the real research behind Goleman's
Emotional Intellegence |
| The Bell Curve |
|
| Updated Rhoades School in CA, in Schools
for the Gifted |
| Diverse Populations of Gifted Children: Meeting Their Needs in the
Regular Classroom and Beyond, in Books,
ADD / ADHD and Highly
Gifted |
| "Supporting the Affective Needs of Your Gifted Child," October
23rd, Williamsburg VA, in Conferences |
| Kids and Teens Links
| Windmills |
| EPGY K8 Puzzle Page |
| Harry Potter Crossword Puzzle! |
|
| Pine-Time Boy, in
Hoagies' Kids Speak Out! |
| Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, in Continuing
Gifted Education |
| 2001 Colleges and Scholarships - links to all 9 college scholarship
searches, in Early
College |
| Books
| "And the skylark sings with me", also in Home
Schooling and Highly
Gifted |
| Updated The Gifted Child's Survival Guide |
| How to Handle a Hard-To-Handle Kid, also in
ADD / ADHD and Highly
Gifted |
| Updated Dreamers, Discoverers and Dynamos : How to Help the Child
Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School (was The Edison
Trait) |
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| Team awaits launch of student-designed satellites, in Gifted
Girls |
| Grade Skipped and
Successful in Academic Acceleration and Frequently Answered Questions |
| The Virtual School, in Academic
Programs |
| Smart Kids, in Curriculum
Adjustments |
| Update to The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), to
include the citation from Dr. Wechsler himself as to why his test is inappropriate
for gifted children, in Testing
and Measurement |
| In Conferences
| OATAG's (Oregon) Second Annual Fall Mini-Conference, October 23 1999
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| The Maryland State Gifted Education Conference, October 15-16 1999
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| Beyond Giftedness VII, March 3 2000 |
| Updated dates for Montana 2000 Conference |
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| Exploring Intelligence (Scientific American Special Issue), in Readings
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| Let's Get Real (PA only), in Contests
and Awards |
| Books
| Miraca Gross' Exceptionally Gifted Children, available directly from
publisher |
| Bringing Out the Best: A Resource Guide for Parents of Young Gifted
Children, also in Young
Children |
| Becoming a Master Student |
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| Gender and Mathematics Education Research, in Gifted
Girls |
| Equity in Restructured Schools, in Gifted
at Risk |
| Start Exploring Gray's Anatomy: A Fact-Filled Coloring Book, in Hot
Topics! |
| Children Above 180 IQ by Leta Hollingworth, in Don't
Miss! |
| A Call for Understanding, in Highly
Gifted |
| The Explore Test
(a FAQ), in Talent Searches |
| Updated Nysmith School in VA and Quest in IL, in Schools
for the Gifted |
| On Education, a
poem, in Social Emotional |
| Tests of Intelligence, in Testing
and Measurement |
| Don't Throw Away the Old Binet, and Current Use of the Stanford Binet,
Form L-M, in Don't
Miss! |
September 1999
| The Many Faces of Giftedness: Lifting the Mask, in Books
and Twice Exceptional |
| In Hot Topics!
| Mysteries, plus two new series of Science Fiction / Fantasy |
| New section of Young Historian's books |
|
| In Testing
and Measurement CTB/McGraw Hill
| Officials say testing company had early warning on botched results
|
| Test-Scoring Error |
| ISTEP+ scoring errors |
| Miscalculation on Scores Shows a Weakness of Tests |
|
| The Tea and Terrorist Society by Monique Lloyd, in Advocacy
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| A new section for gifted kids to publish their own work...
Hoagies'
Kids Speak Out!
| with poems by Dolphin and Winnifred |
|
| Another new Ridiculous Things I Heard Today
|
| Talent Searches
| Centre for Gifted Education at the University of Calgary Talent
Search |
| Office of Precollegiate Programs for Talented and Gifted (OPPTAG)
Talent Search, Iowa State University |
|
| Fixed Dear America link, in Kids
and Teens Links |
| Wisconsin Association for Talented and Gifted, in Regional
Organizations |
| Conferences
| 1999 WATG Fall Conference - "Weaving the Strands of
Giftedness" October 7-8 1999 |
| Activating Potential: Developing Your Child's Talent at Northwestern
CTD, October 23 1999 |
|
| The Wizard of Pasedena, in Highly
Gifted
and Early
College |
| Academic Programs
| Mathematical Olympiad, Science Olympiad |
| Northwestern CTD AP Courses and AP Course Reviews, Clonlara School
Compuhigh |
|
| Fixed Accelerated Reader title search in Grade
Levels of Reading Books |
| Merely bright or brilliant?, in Identification
|
| October Don't Miss articles - Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular
Classroom, in Don't
Miss! |
| College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD), in Twice
Exceptional |
| Fixed MIT's RSI program link, in Summer
and Saturday Programs |
| DealPilot.com replaces ACSES, in Books |
| Within-Class Cluster Grouping and Related Stratagies: Brief Summaries,
in Cluster Grouping |
| The Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness, in Educational
Theories |
| Gender Issues in Gifted Education, Women and Mathematics, in Gifted
Girls |
| Minorities and Mathematics, in Gifted
at Risk |
| New page, Middle
School and Gifted, located under Traditional School
| High End Learning in the Diverse Middle School: Investigating the
Possibilities |
| Gifted Learners and the Middle School: Problem or Promise? |
| Differentiating Instruction for Advanced Learners in the
Mixed-Ability Middle School Classroom |
| Gifted Education and Middle Schools, an ERIC Mini-bibliography |
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| Curriculum Adjustments
| Differentiation: Definition and Description for Gifted and Talented
|
| Talent Development for Everyone: A Review of Developing the Gifts
and Talents of All Students in the Regular Classroom |
| Planning Science Programs for High-Ability Learners - ERIC Digest
#546 |
| NCTM 1998 Draft Mathematics Standards |
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| Underachievement
| Underachieving Gifted Students: A Mother's Perspective |
| Gifted and Learning Disabled: Twice Exceptional Students, (already
in Twice
Exceptional) |
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| Preaching to the Choir: TV Advisory Ratings and Gifted Children, in Parenting
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| Twice Exceptional
| Dual Exceptionalities - ERIC Digest #574 |
| Twice Exceptional |
|
| Distinguishing Myths From Realities: NRC/GT Research, in Identification
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| Whiz Kid Worries, in Early
College |
| Corrected Discanner's URL in Readings |
| Expert Testimony: Dr. Howard Gardner speaks out..., in Educational
Theories |
| Regional
Organizations
| Nebraska Association for the Gifted page |
| Tennessee's TAG-TENN web page |
|
| Psychologist Blames Stress for Gifted Students' Misbehavior, in Social
Emotional |
| corrected bad links, in Explore
Test and Twice Exceptional |
| Another new Ridiculous Things I Heard Today
|
| Why does a perfect score on a standardized test sometimes convert to a
National Percentile that is less than 99?, in Testing
and Measurement |
| Advocacy
| Research Should Inform Practice, Testimony of the NAGC, Testimony of
the NNFGC |
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| Conferences
| NAGC 2001 in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented,
Brisbane, July 2000 |
| 10th Annual SAGE Conference, Edmunton, Canada, October 1999 |
| AEGTC Gifted Ed '99 - 21st Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C.,
October 1999 |
| Bright Horizons Conference, Vancouver, B.C. October 1999 |
| CEC Conference, Sun Valley, Idaho, October 1999 |
| The 2nd Annual Bright Beginnings Conference, Mankato, Minnesota,
October 1999 |
| Minnesota Educators of the Gifted and Talented (MEGT), Brainerd,
Minnesota, February 2000 |
| 20th Annual TAG-TENN Conference |
|
| Removed Rockhurst links from Visual Spatial Learners page - no longer
available |
| Young Mr. Smith Goes to College, in Highly
Gifted
and Early
College |
| Kids and Teens Links
| Math comics |
| Visual Basic for Kids |
| Not for kids only: Give Pokemon a Chance!, by one of our own list
kids |
| h.i.p. Pocket Change - history through U.S. coins |
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| 3RD Circuit decision for gifted/ld students (PA), in Twice
Exceptional |
| Internet
Investigations!
| h.i.p. Pocket Change - history, language arts and mathematics
(grades K - 8) through U.S. coins |
| OASIS science and math units (grades K - 12) |
|
| Contests and Awards,
a new page (split off Kids and Teens links...)
| American Mathematics Competitions, Canadian Mathematics Competition,
Canadian Computing Competitions, MathLeague, MATHCOUNTS |
|
| Surviving school, a veteran's experience, in Highly
Gifted |
| A Gifted Afterschooler's Journey, in Home
Schooling |
| Great new item, in You
Know You're The Parent of a Gifted Child When... |
| Schonell Reading Test, in Testing
and Measurement and Grade
Levels of Reading Books |
| Fixed all ERIC links, plus a few TAGFAM, Parenting, and HoagiesGifted
links... |
| Won Educating.net Top Site award! |
August 1999
| Underachievement
| Dealing with the Stereotype of Underachievement |
| From Overt Behavior to Developing Potential: The Gifted
Underachiever |
|
| Don't Miss!
| Added 24 Game and ZomeTool products |
| Added Is It A Cheetah? by Stephanie Tolan |
| September - Basis of Practitioners' Objections
to Acceleration |
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| University of South Florida online Masters Degree in Gifted
Education, in Continuing
Gifted Education |
| More information on Louisiana mandates, in Mandates |
| Asynchrony:
Homeschooling an Exceptionally Gifted Child, in Home School and Highly
Gifted |
| Fixed links to "Stay out of the way and let them learn..." and
"On the Wrong Track", in Curriculum
Adjustments |
| Kids and Teens Links
| BeatCalc - the weekly Beat the Calculator trick, and the archives of
over 190 tricks... |
| removed bad Pokemon link |
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| National Network of Families with Gifted Children (NNFGC), in Organizations
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| Books
| Updated links for Exceptionally Gifted Children by Miraca Gross - it's still available!
|
| e-compare, book and software price comparison site |
|
| Two schools for the gifted in the Atlanta Georgia area, in Schools
for the Gifted |
| Added a section of Science Fiction Favorites, in Hot
Topics! |
| Continued improvements, including Amazon.com links, to Movies
featuring gifted children and/or adults |
| What If We Ended Social Promotion?, in Early
(or late) Kindergarten |
| Added the new Kids and Teens resources, in Guide
for First Time Visitors |
| Rushmore, in Movies |
July 1999
| The 24 Game, in Products |
| Added July Don't Miss articles - for parents of Twice Exceptional
children, in Don't
Miss! |
| Kids and Teens Links
| SmarterKids.Com, giving away free Websters Encyclopedia 1999 |
| funschool.com |
|
| The Difficult Child, in Books
and
ADD / ADHD |
| Assetts, Honolulu HI, in Schools
for the Gifted |
| Hot Topics!
| The Book of Numbers |
| Calculus by and for Young People (Ages 7, Yes 7 and Up), and
coordinating worksheets |
| Horrible Science:
 | Blood, Bones and Body Bits, Chemical Chaos, Disgusting
Digestion, Fatal Forces, Nasty Nature, Ugly Bugs |
|
| More Horrible Science (Amazon.co.uk.co only):
| Bulging Brains, Evolve or Die, Frightening Light, Sounds
Dreadful, Vicious Veg |
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| Lots more Horrible Histories (available from Amazon.co.uk only) in
History Hounds |
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| Movies featuring
gifted children and/or adults |
| A Sense of Self : Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls, in Home
Schooling and Gifted
Girls |
| More information on British Columbia mandates, in Mandates
|
| Alberta Associations for Bright Children, Edmonton Chapter, in Regional
Organizations |
| OAGC Fall Conference, plus Sandra Kaplan seminar, in Conferences
|
| Lemelson-MIT Program's Invention Apprenticeship, in Kids
and Teens Links |
|
Moved to our own domain! http://www.hoagiesgifted.org
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| History Hounds!, in Hot
Topics! |
| PA final version of Chapter 16 on Gifted Education, in Mandates
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| Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals, in Social
/ Emotional |
| Great new items, in You
Know You're The Parent of a Gifted Child When... |
| Another stupidity, in Ridiculous Things I Heard Today
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|
Organizations
| Gifted Canada, Gifted Resource Center of New England |
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Kids and Teens Links
| NOVA On-Line, TerraQuest, African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning,
Destination: Himalayas, The Inca Trail and Machu Picchu, Annenberg
Exhibits..., Amusement Park Physics, Medieval or The Middle Ages, The
Renaissance or "Rebirth", The Virtual Cave |
| Orson Scott Card site |
| On-Line Quest, including AsiaQuest, GalapagosQuest, but removed
MayQuest (no longer available on www) |
| Bill Nye Labs On-Line, Newton's Apple Teachers' Guides, Craftsman/NSTA
Young Inventors Awards Program in Contests, Richard Feynman, the hero
of physics geeks everywhere! |
| New section Art and Artists, including Leonardo Davinci |
| New section of Contests |
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Internet
Investigations!
| Newton's Apple Teachers' Guides, Scholastic, Franklin Institute's
Science Activities |
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