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Just Published! See the SUMMER 2008 Online Issue of Gifted Education Press Quarterly
by Clicking the Following Link in Adobe Format:
http://www.GiftedEdPress.com/GEPQSUMMER2008.pdf
Please note that we are no longer snail mailing hard copies because of
high printing and postage costs. If you would like hard copies snail
mailed to you, there will be a be a relatively small subscriber fee.
Contact me at gifted@giftededpress.com for the cost.
The SUMMER 2008 Online Issue of GEPQ
contains the following articles:
1. Editorial Comments by Maurice Fisher - Summer Activities for Gifted
Students
2. AP Classes: Advanced Placement or Advancing the Privileged?
Donna Y. Ford
Gilman W. Whiting Vanderbilt University
3. Mathematical Giftedness: Acceleration Mathematics Program (AMP)
at Tel Aviv University
Hanna David Ben Gurion
University
Eilat, Israel
4. A Tripod for a Triad: Providing Affective Support for
Students' Type III Projects in the Enrichment Triad Model
Elizabeth A. Romey University of South Alabama
5. Aesthetic Percipience Part 2: Instructional Strategies that
Support Gifted Students' Appreciation of and Affinity for the Fine Arts
Jason A. Helfer Stephen T.
Schroth Educational Studies
Department Knox College
6. Jane Austen (1775-1817) and the Sensibility of Giftedness
Michael E.
Walters Center
for the Study of the Humanities in the Schools
7. Challenging Gifted Children to Use Both Hemispheres of the Brain
R. E. Myers Healdsburg, California
See the directions below to access the Members-Only Online Version on
the Gifted Education Press Web Site. GEPQ
Online contains all previous issues (for reference purposes) back to
the April 1987 issue.
Please see our recently updated Key Word List of Articles, Authors and
Topics from Gifted Education Press
Quarterly and Gifted
Education News-Page for over Twenty Years of information
from these periodicals about the Education of Gifted Students:
Click here - Key Words
If you know a colleague or friend who would like a complimentary copy
of the SUMMER 2008 Online Issue, tell them to send their request to: gifted@giftededpress.com. In addition, please
see the information on our Web Site about our books on creative
thinking, humanities, science and mathematics.
Our latest books are as follows:
1. By Judy Micheletti: MORE SNIBBLES: Serendipitous Seasons.
This book focuses on how to motivate gifted students to be more
creative at their school and home, and it contains several delightful
line drawings that will entice the imagination of all curious children
and adults. Further information can be found at:
http://www.giftededpress.com/SNIBBLES2.htm
2. By Harry T. Roman: Solar Power, Fuel Cells, Wind Power and Other
Important Environmental Studies for Upper Elementary and Middle School
Gifted Students and Their Teachers: A Technology, Problem-Solving and
Invention Guide. It is perfect for use in Tech Ed, pre-engineering
and environmental courses and study units. Further information can be
found at:
http://www.giftededpress.com/HARRYTROMAN.htm
Contact me if you have any ideas for new articles or books that GEP can
publish.
In April 2008, EdNews.org interviewed me about the present state of
Gifted Education. Please see this interview at the following link:
http://ednews.org/articles/24600/1/An-Interview-with-Maurice-Fisher-Publisher-Gifted-Education-Press/Page1.html
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Maurice Fisher, Ph.D., Publisher
P.S. A past issue of Time Magazine (August 27, 2007) contains a lead
article entitled, The Genius Problem. This article includes information
from an essay published in the Spring 1996 issue of GEPQ - "Anti-Intellectualism
in Secondary Schools: The Problem Continues" by Stephen
Schroeder-Davis. Use the instructions below to access this and many
other essays from our GEPQ
Online Link.
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