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Gifted children and gifted education : a handbook for teachers and parents / by Davis, Gary A.,1938-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-317 and indexes.Gifted students and gifted education -- Characteristics of the gifted -- Definitions, theories, and legal questions -- Identification of gifted and talented students -- Acceleration -- Enrichment -- Grouping gifted students -- Planning a gifted program -- Models that guide teaching the gifted -- Thinking skills -- Creativity and teaching for creative growth -- Problems and counseling needs.
Subjects: Gifted children; Talented students;
© c2006., Great Potential Press,
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Failing our Brightest Kids : the Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students / by Finn, Chester E.,Jr.,1944-; Wright, Brandon L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Educating smart kids : why bother? -- How is the United States doing? -- How disagreement holds us back -- How the system slows us down -- Will differentiation move us forward? -- How do other countries educate smart kids? -- Japan : early neglect, later intensity -- Singapore : enough of a good thing? -- Korea : too much pressure? -- Taiwan : do as we say, not as we do -- Finland : not quite as advertised -- Germany : differentiating without differences -- Hungary : much talk, less action -- Switzerland : decentralized to excess? -- England : sifting through the policy rubble -- Ontario : how "special" is "gifted"? -- Western Australia : in for the long haul -- What have we learned? -- Moves America should make.
Subjects: Gifted children; Gifted children;
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The peak in the middle : developing mathematically gifted students in the middle grades / by Saul, Mark E.; Assouline, Susan G.(Susan Goodsell),1953-; Sheffield, Linda Jensen,1949-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Mathematics; Gifted children; Middle school education.;
© c2010., NCTM ; National Association of Gifted Children ; National Middle School Association,
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The grave's a fine and private place : a Flavia de Luce novel / by Bradley, C. Alan,1938-;
"...In the wake of an unthinkable family tragedy, twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is struggling to fill her empty days. For a needed escape, Dogger, the loyal family servant, suggests a boating trip for Flavia and her two older sisters. As their punt drifts past the church where a notorious vicar had recently dispatched three of his female parishioners by spiking their communion wine with cyanide, Flavia, an expert chemist with a passion for poisons, is ecstatic. Suddenly something grazes against her fingers as she dangles them in the water. She clamps down on the object, imagining herself as Ernest Hemingway battling a marlin, and pulls up what she expects will be a giant fish. But in Flavia's grip is something far better: a human head, attached to a human body. If anything could take Flavia's mind off sorrow, it is solving a murder--although one that may lead the young sleuth to an early grave. Acclaim for Alan Bradley's beloved Flavia de Luce novels, winners of the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger Award, Barry Award, Agatha Award, Macavity Award, Dilys Award, and Arthur Ellis Award "If ever there were a sleuth who's bold, brilliant, and, yes, adorable, it's Flavia de Luce."--USA Today "Delightful. a combination of Eloise and Sherlock Holmes."--The Boston Globe "[Flavia] is as addictive as dark chocolate."--Daily Mail"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; De Luce, Flavia (Fictitious character); Child detectives; Serial murder investigation; Gifted children; False testimony;
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A wrinkle in time / by L'Engle, Madeleine.;
740Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.Newbery Medal, 1963An appreciation by Anna Quindlen -- Mrs. Whatsit -- Mrs. Who -- Mrs. Which -- The black thing -- The Tesseract -- The happy medium -- The man with red eyes -- The transparent column -- IT -- Absolute zero -- Aunt Beast -- The foolish and the weak -- Go fish : questions for the author -- Newbery Medal acceptance speech : The expanding universe.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Space and time; Brothers and sisters; Missing persons; Extraterrestrial beings; Gifted children; Time travel; Space and time; Brothers and sisters; Missing persons; Extraterrestrial beings; Gifted children; Time travel;
© 2007., Square Fish,
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Ender's game / by Hood, Gavin,film director,screenwriter.; Pritzker, Gigi,film producer.; McDonough, Linda,film producer.; Kurtzman, Alex,film producer.; Orci, Roberto,film producer.; Chartoff, Robert,film producer.; Hendee, Lynn,film producer.; Card, Orson Scott,film producer.; Ulbrich, Ed,1965-film producer.; Lischak, Bill,film producer.; Coatsworth, David,film producer.; Zhong, Ivy,film producer.; Roddam, Venkatesh,1963-film producer.; Ravinett, Ted,1947-film producer.; Del Prete, Deborah,film producer.; Safavi, Mandy,1969-film producer.; Ford, Harrison,1942-actor.; Butterfield, Asa,1997-actor.; Steinfeld, Hailee,actor.; Davis, Viola,1965-actor.; Breslin, Abigail,1996-actor.; Kingsley, Ben,1943-actor.; Arias, Moises,1994-actor.; Knight, Aramis,1999-actor.; Partha, Suraj,1997-actor.; Anozie, Nonso,1979-actor.; McAlpine, Donald M.,director of photography.; Haworth, Sean,1966-production designer.; Procter, Ben,1973-production designer.; Staenberg, Zach,editor of moving image work.; Smith, Lee,1960-editor of moving image work.; Clark, Christine Bieselin,1972-costume designer.; Jablonsky, Steve,composer.; Summit Entertainment,presenter,film distributor.; Odd Lot Entertainment (Firm),presenter,production company.; Chartoff Productions (Firm),production company.; Taleswapper (Firm),production company.; K/O Paper Products (Firm),production company.; Digital Domain, Inc.,production company.;
DVD ; NTSC, region 1, Dolby digital 5.1, format: 2.40:1.Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin, Ben Kingsley, Moises Arias, Aramis Knight, Suraj Parthasarathy, Khylin Rhambo, Jimmy Jax Pinchak, Conor Carroll, Nonso Anozie, Tony Mirrcandani.Director of photography, Donald M. McAlpine ; production designers, Sean Haworth, Ben Procter ; edited by Zach Staenberg ; edited by Lee Smith ; costume designer, Christine Bieselin Clark ; music by Steve Jablonsky.A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.MPAA rating: PG-13; some violence, sci-fi action and thematic material.
Subjects: Card, Orson Scott.; Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character); Brothers and sisters; Gifted children; Military education; War games; Genetic engineering;
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The gift of failure : how the best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed / by Lahey, Jessica.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Counsels parents of school-aged children on how to overcome tendencies toward overprotectiveness to allow children to develop independence. --Publisher's description.Introduction: how I learned to let go -- Failure: a most valuable parenting tool. How failure became a dirty word: a brief history of American parenting ; Why parenting for dependence doesn't work: the power of intrinsic motivation ; Less really is more: parenting for autonomy and competence ; Encouragement from the sidelines: the real connection between praise and self-esteem -- Learning from failure: teaching kids to turn mistakes into success. Household duties: laundry as an opportunity for competence ; Friends: accomplices to failure and the formation of identity ; Sports: losing as an essential childhood experience ; Middle school: prime time for failure ; High school and beyond: toward real independence -- Succeeding at school: learning from failure is a team effort. Parent-teacher partnerships: how our fear of failure undermines education ; Homework: how to help without taking over ; Grades: the real value of a low score -- Conclusion: what I've learned from letting go.
Subjects: Self-reliance in children.; Child rearing; Parenting; Parental overprotection.; Early childhood education;
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As chimney sweepers come to dust : a Flavia de Luce novel / by Bradley, C. Alan,1938-;
Banished from her home at Buckshaw for her recent indiscretions, Flavia is shipped across the ocean to Miss Bodycote's Female Academy in Toronto, her mother's alma mater, there to be inducted into a mysterious organization known as the Nide. No sooner does she arrive, however, than a body comes crashing down out of the chimney and into her room, setting off a series of investigations into mysterious disappearances of girls from the school.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; De Luce, Flavia (Fictitious character); Missing children; Missing persons; Child detectives; Gifted girls; British; Boarding schools;
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As chimney sweepers come to dust : [electronic resource] : A Flavia de Luce novel by Bradley, C. Alan,1938-;
Banished! is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada. The sun has not yet risen on Flavia’s first day in captivity when a gift lands at her feet. Flavia being Flavia, a budding chemist and sleuth, that gift is a charred and mummified body, which tumbles out of a bedroom chimney. Now, while attending classes, making friends (and enemies), and assessing the school’s stern headmistress and faculty (one of whom is an acquitted murderess), Flavia is on the hunt for the victim’s identity and time of death, as well as suspects, motives, and means. Rumors swirl that Miss Bodycote’s is haunted, and that several girls have disappeared without a trace. When it comes to solving multiple mysteries, Flavia is up to the task—but her true destiny has yet to be revealed.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; De Luce, Flavia (Fictitious character); Missing children; Missing persons; Child detectives; Gifted girls; British; Boarding schools; Fiction.; Historical Fiction.; Mystery.; Thriller.;
© 2015.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1945191 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Real education : four simple truths for bringing America's schools back to reality / by Murray, Charles A.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-210) and index.The controversial author of "The Bell Curve" returns with a groundbreaking manifesto to transform American education. He presents the four simple truths that parents and educators should confront to precipitate change--that ability varies, that half of the children are below average, that too many people are going to college, and that America's future depends on how we educate the academically gifted. Real Education describes the technological and economic trends that are creating options for parents who want the right education for their children, teachers who want to be free to teach again, and young people who want to find something they love doing and learn how to do it well.Ability varies -- Half of the children are below average -- Too many people are going to college -- America's future depends on how we educate the academically gifted -- Letting change happen.
Subjects: Educational accountability; Education; Public schools;
© c2008., Three Rivers Press,
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