The interview with J. Gallagher focuses on the effects of recent reports on secondary education in America on the education of gifted and talented students. Gallagher suggests that the calls for excellence will highlight the importance of gifted education and notes the challenges involved in program improvement. (CL)

The author describes his early experience with the Talented Youth Project and stresses the need for planning the total experience of the gifted student. Models for curriculum differentiation are noted. (CL)

A summary of the educational development in the United Kingdom in the 20th century cites the growing concern for students with exceptional needs despite reluctance to use the term gifted. Government publications and their implications for gifted education are reviewed and proposals for the future are offered. (CL)

Educational innovations from the mid-1800s are briefly reviewed and a framework for projected change strategies in the next decade is given. (JD)

Continuing education will be the major potential growth area of the eighties. This growth will encourage a comprehensive program of vocational agriculture to exist in the next decade. (LRA)

This paper identifies themes of the Second African Conference on Child Abuse (1993), notes the importance of the breakdown of family structure, and stresses the importance of prevention. Prerequisites for prevention programs in developing countries are considered and development of a macro campaign and local micro efforts is urged. Examples of…

Until 1985, higher education was a growth industry, and new programs were a by-product of that growth. Now, new programs must be justified by extensive data analysis. This trend and others indicate governing boards are taking the new-program approval process seriously. (MLW)

This response to Smith and Hilton (1994) suggests that those authors reject philosophical bases for decision making regarding program design for students with mental retardation while actually proposing their own philosophical base for such decision making. The importance of philosophy in guiding decisions and practice over the last several…

This article identifies and comments upon several significant challenges facing school, college, and department of education (SCDE) administrators, suggests developmental needs of these administrators, and notes behavior and performance changes which they must make. (JD)

The paper examines key issues in the future of gifted education, first noting the emphasis in the current literature on the need for restructuring the curriculum, particularly in science and mathematics. Findings regarding definitions of gifted children are examined, noting the frequent practice of arbitrarily identifying those dimensions of…

Engineering education is going through a difficult period because of burgeoning undergraduate enrollments, falloff in nonforeign graduate students, and rapidly changing technology. The growing high-technology environment may encourage the development of professional programs in engineering. (Author/MLW)

A new paradigm of education, talent development, may be the successor to gifted education. The talent development perspective involves extension and redefinition of the nature of giftedness or talents, identification, and programming. Emphasis is on identifying and nurturing talents in all students, rather than selecting and serving the "gifted…

The potential of "integration" for improvement of teacher education programs appears to be widely acknowledged, as evidenced by the growth of new programs. Central to much of this program revision is the attempt to relate the educational practicum with other components of the teacher education process. (Author)

The article uses forecasting methods to look at possible trends in future schools for the gifted. Trends such as use of new technologies and interdisciplinary curriculum content are identified. Techniques of forecasting for students are briefly described as are several existing programming options which emphasize future studies and forecasting.…

This paper addresses the development of a corporate/foundation relations program at a college or university. To provide background information on corporate and foundation philanthropy, the report lists 1984 contributions (in billions) by individuals, bequests, foundations, and corporations, along with the type of field/entity receiving the funds.…