A
collection of books that specifically focus on acceleration, grade
skipping, and early college.
A
guide for gifted kids who want to accelerate, home school or enter
college early. Author, Lauren Betancourt skipped high school and entered
college at age 13, graduating at age 16. This book details the process
she took, the social questions and answers on entering college early,
pros and cons, how to research laws and generally how to prepare to
accelerate or skip grades. SAT, CLEP and FAFSA information is included
to help students learn how to get financial aid without a high school
diploma. The book will appeal to k-12 parents and teachers. It also
addresses one of the most difficult education questions: how to help
gifted kids determine if acceleration is the right decision for them. A
list of college programs that accept students to full-time college
between the ages of 10 and 16+ is also included in an appendix along
with a list of organizations that perform various services for the
hundreds of kids that have entered college under the age of 16. Appendix
and index
Accidental
Genius by Kevin James Kearny, Kevin James Kearney, Cassidy
Yumiko Kearney, Kearney Kevin, Kearney Cassidy ISBN: 0962874612
This is the story of Michael Kearny who graduated from college at age 10
with a 3.6 GPA in Anthropology. He continued on to do graduate
work, earning a Master of Science degree in Chemistry at age 14.
It also includes the story of Megan Kearney who was equally as gifted,
but had a different educational experience. This is biographical
story and doesn't have much in the way of tips or suggestions. Lauren
and I really liked this book and thought the story was very
representative of what the acceleration process is really
like. We both recommend it.
Genius
in Residence by Audrey Grost ISBN: 0133512053 Genius in Residence is by the mother of, Michael Grost, who
attended both college and the fifth grade simultaneously, at age nine.
He graduated from college at the age of 15. has an IQ of about
200. He has received numerous honors. He and his parents also
received the extreme, undisguised hostility of some other parents.
A
Case of Brilliance by Rebecca Lange Hein ISBN: 1401044727
Read this book and meet Rebecca, Ellis, Annette, and Lewis Hein,
a home schooling family whose story offers compelling evidence that
gifted people have unusual educational and emotional needs that must be
served. This is a book of optimism, but also a commentary on the harm
caused to gifted children who never learn the truth about their
abilities. Read it and travel into the mind and heart of a profoundly
gifted adult and her highly unusual husband and children.
Exceptionally
Gifted Children by Miraca U.M. Gross ISBN: 0415314917 The first edition of this book, published in 1993,
introduced 15 remarkable children, some of the most gifted young people
ever studied, and traced their path through school, exploring their
academic achievements (and in some cases enforced underachievement),
their emotional development, their social relationships and their family
relationships and upbringing. This new edition reviews these early years
but also follows the young people over the subsequent ten years into
adulthood. The study reveals the ongoing negative academic and social
effects of prolonged underachievement and social isolation imposed on
gifted children by inappropriate curriculum and class placement and
shows clearly the long lasting benefits of thoughtfully planned
individual educational programs. The young adults of this study speak
out and show how what happened in school has influenced and still
influences many aspects of their lives. Miraca Gross provides a clear,
practical blueprint for teachers and parents who recognize the special
learning needs of gifted children and seek to respond effectively.
Ex-Prodigy:
My Childhood and Youth by Norbert Wiener (Author) ISBN: 0262730081 Famed mathematician/scientist/author Norbert Wiener
(1894-1964)graduated
from college at 14, and got his PhD at 18. He is the founder of
the science of cybernetics. Some in society hoped he would fail
and often put obstacles in his way. This is book One. The
Second book is "I am a Mathematician."
I
Am a Mathematician by Norbert Wiener (Author) ISBN: 0262730073
Book 2 by Norbert Wiener, famed
mathematician/scientist/author
(1894-1964) who graduated from college
at 14, and got his PhD at 18. He is the founder of the science of
cybernetics. This is the continuation of his first book "Ex-Prodigy:
My Childhood and Youth."
The
Academic Acceleration of Gifted Children (Education and Psychology of
the Gifted) by S. Thomas Southern, Eric D. Jones (Editor),
William T. Southern ASIN: 0807730696
Some topics covered include; selection of candidates for early admission
to Kindergarten and Year One, objections to early entrance and grade
skipping, affective development in accelerated students. It guides
in determining who the potential, successful candidates for acceleration
might be; what instruments and procedures to use in programs and the
strategies for gauging results.
Nature's
Gambit: Child Prodigies and the Development of Human Potential
(Education and Psychology of the Gifted, No 9) by David Henry Feldman, Lynn T. Goldsmith ISBN:
0807731439 From the Amazon Review: Anyone who has any
interest in the phenomenon of child prodigies will find this book a
fascinating read. It traces the early development of 6 children who are
prodigies (able to work competitively at the adult level) in some field.
Of the 6, the fields the children excel in are as follows: 2 are in
chess, 1 is a writer, 1 a musician, 1 in mathematics, 1 is extremely
gifted overall (one of the highest IQs recorded). The author explains
why prodigies are more often found in some fields, such as music or
chess, than others (such as writing- the writing prodigy was the only 1
of the 6 children studied who was not working at an adult professional
level). The author delves into the "coincidences" of time,
place, technology and parenting that allow these prodigies to develop.
He draws on other examples of prodigies outside of his own 6 subjects.
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