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Peer reviewedFeiring, Candice; Louis, Barbara; Ukeje, Ikechukwu; Lewis, Michael; Leong, Philip – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1997
A screening and assessment procedure has been developed in Newark, New Jersey, to identify gifted inner-city minority kindergarten students. The procedure uses the Brigance K & 1 Screen, a new Gifted Screening intelligence measure, and the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities. The procedure has increased identification of gifted students…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Identification, Gifted
Perez, Rosa Isela – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
Project First Step serves potentially gifted student populations at 10 inner-city schools in southeast San Diego (California), in a community comprised of Latino, African-American, and Indo-Chinese families. The program's three components include student readiness, teacher training, and parent involvement. (JDD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cultural Differences, Early Intervention, Gifted
Peer reviewedWright, Lisa; Borland, James H. – Roeper Review, 1992
The mentorship component of Project Synergy at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York), develops the talent of potentially gifted, economically disadvantaged urban kindergarten children, by matching them with mentors from a school for gifted urban minority middle school students. This paper describes training, the mentoring relationship…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Economically Disadvantaged, Gifted Disadvantaged, Intermediate Grades
