The highly capable students of today are likely to become the intellectual, cultural, technological, financial, social, and scientific leaders of tomorrow.
This study adds to that literature by showing that implicit instruction is not effective even when the intervention is an advanced 2-year science program and even with highly capable students and teachers.
Our community now understands how this focus allows us to draw stronger students to the college, because our applicant pool includes highly capable students we want as part of our community, but we lack sufficient financial aid to admit them all.
When some Harbor/UCLA faculty were asked if they were interested in having a community college student work with them, they replied, "Aren't these remedial students?" These Harbor/UCLA faculty mentors quickly learned that these were not remedial students, but bright, inquisitive, highly capable students that made positive contributions to their research projects.
Caught in the middle of a nationally polarized debate on immigration, a growing number of highly capable students are being left out of the UC's equation because of the inability of Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
In fact, one the strongest aspects of Seattle's Accelerated Progress Program APPP) for highly capable students is that it affords every highly capable child in the district, no matter what their socioeconomic background, the opportunity to join a program that will meet them at their level and challenge them with the depth and complexity they need.
"Making room for these highly capable students — by increasing the share of high school graduates eligible for the University of California and the California State University systems — would improve the well-being of our state and the lives of these young Californians," said senior fellow and study author Hans Johnson.
During his second year as a high school teacher in South Carolina, Reid Saaris noticed that a highly academically capable student was not registered for advanced classes.
Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has had this kind of program for at least 10 years for a small group of highly capable young students.
This trend is worrying, as we consider the signals that we are sending to our highly capable female students working toward a career in the sciences.
Highly capable organisations have clearly defined leadership criteria that they communicate and apply consistently.
