This information was produced by the staff of the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development (B-BC) at the University of Iowa (belinblank.org). The resources and information listed here are for informational purposes; there is no direct or implied endorsement by the B-BC. Services provided by the B-BC include programs for academically talented K-12 and college students, professional development for teachers, the Assessment and Counseling Clinic, the Acceleration Institute (accelerationinstitute.org), and graduate programs and research in gifted education.

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Other Resources

  • Nicholas Colangelo, director of the College of Education’s Belin-Blank Center, discussed acceleration policy and the Templeton Grant on Iowa Public Radio’s radio show "The Exchange": Nicholas Colangelo Interview On Acceleration
  • In the 1950s, the Ford Foundation sent two hundred high school students to college. Some were as young as fifteen, an age at which most believed no student would be emotionally or academically ready for college. Read about the Ford Foundation's successful experiment with early entrance to college. (From On Wisconsin Magazine, Spring 2005)
  • The Davidson Institute for Talent Development has compiled a series of whole grade acceleration success stories.
  • The blog Gifted Exchange recently addressed grade-skipping through testing: Take a test, skip a grade?.