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unusual facts about gifted children



Governor's Program for Gifted Children

Although GPGC existed as the McNeese Summer Enrichment Program before the North Carolina Governor's School, it became the second "governor's school for gifted children" in the United States.


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Anastasia Rizikov

An excerpt of one of her videos was even briefly shown on The Oprah Winfrey Show during a feature on gifted children.

Davidson Academy of Nevada

The school is a division of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, a nationwide nonprofit organization established by the Davidsons to support the needs of profoundly gifted children through information resources, networking and educational opportunities, family support, advocacy, and scholarships.

Eduard Kunz

Eduard was born in Siberia, studied with Michail Khokhlov at the Gnessin Special school for gifted children and with Andrei Diev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

Espresso Tales

He yearns to go to Watson's school and play rugby, even securing a blazer and sneaking into lessons, but is sent to the Steiner School for gifted children instead.

Governor's Program for Gifted Children

The Governor's Program for Gifted Children (GPGC) is a gifted education residential summer program at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Miraca Gross

Her 1993 book Exceptionally Gifted Children presents fifteen subjects selected from a longitudinal study of 40 Australian children with IQs in excess of 160, including Fields Medal recipient Terence Tao among others.

National Association for Gifted Children

The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) is an association in the United Kingdom for gifted and talented children, and their parents.

Tracy L. Cross

Coleman had adapted Erving Goffman's (1963) social stigma theory to gifted children, providing a rationale for why children may hide their abilities and present alternate identities to their peers.

Yu Kosuge

At the age of four, she entered Tokyo University of the Arts, having been selected under a programme aimed at providing specialist education to gifted children.