Here are some useful Internet links for parents and educators who wish to learn more.
You can reach Mackenzie Carpenter via e-mail at mcarpenter@post-gazette.com
The main national organization advocating for gifted education is the National Association for Gifted Children:
www.nagc.org
The Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education is an advocacy group of educators and parents who play an active role in development of policy, plus provide support for parents of gifted children.
www.penngifted.org
The State of Pennsylvania's gifted education page contains explanation of state regulations:
www.pde.psu.edu/gifted/gifted.html
Joseph Renzulli's site. He is the director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, the only federally funded research organization for gifted education, at the University of Connecticut. His web site is:
www.gifted.uconn.edu
Here are the addresses for some specialized and nonprofessional Web sites:
Carnegie Mellon Institute of Talented Elementary Students provides weekend and summer programs for academically talented students:
outreach.mac.cc.cmu.edu/C-MITES
The Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University, the grandaddy of all programs based on the "talent search" model, which tests more than 150,000 students across the country in an effort to provide students an opportunity to study with intellectual peers. Top scorers qualify to take advanced courses at the Baltimore-based campus and at 16 other locations. Special efforts are made to identify gifted students in low-income areas.
www.jhu.edu/~gifted
The National network of families with Gifted Children is a grass-roots organization and support group:
www.nnfgc.org
Gifted children, generally defined as having an IQ of 160 or above:
www.ditd.org
Linda Silverman's site in Denver provides assessment, consulting, counseling and information to parents and educators about gifted children:
www.gifteddevelopment.com
This site, mainly an information clearinghouse, is also dedicated to highly gifted children, named after Leta Hollingworth, one of the pioneering researchers in this area:
www.hollingworth.org
Franny McAleer is a local gifted education consultant. Her Web site is:
http://learnerslink.com
A site operated by parents of gifted children is at:
www.hoagiesgifted.org
