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New AP Courses to Emphasize Critical Thinking and Research By Caralee Adams on March 5, 2012 5:47 PM   The College Board is piloting two new Advanced Placement courses designed to focus on r...

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Don't Leave Gifted Students Behind High achievers are essential to global competition By Frances R. Spielhagen The annual wars, aka school budget deliberations, are about to begin. Across the nat...

Alabama Voices: MLK would have been AP student 5:29 PM, Jan. 14, 2012 By Caroline Novak Children across the country are celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King's "March on Was...

Why Be Apologetic About Helping the Gifted? By Walt Gardner on November 14, 2011 7:22 AM|Recommend   Only in the U.S. are gifted children treated as stepchildren. Despite their growing n...

10 Things Colleges Want From Applicants College admissions are essentially mysterious. Of course there are vague ideas about what to do to get into college, but what is really the most important in t...

Excellence for All--Getting Past the Minimum-Standards Mentality By Frederick M. Hess | National Review Tuesday, October 18, 2011 This article appears in the October 31 edition of National Review...

  Suburban school districts falling behind Jay P. Greene and Josh B. McGee, Special Contributors Education reform efforts have focused almost exclusively on improving big city public school sy...

Why gifted education misses out By Jay Mathews   Frederick M. Hess’s long essay in the latest issue of the quarterly National Affairs pleased those of us who share the American Enterpr...

Texas’ Mesquite Independent School District Wins National Urban Education Excellence Award New Orleans, La. (October 10, 2011) - The National School Boards Association (NSBA) announces that Tex...