Books

Bringing Out the Best: A Resource Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children
Jacquelyn Saunders & Pamela Espeland, Free Spirit Publishers, 1991.

Counseling the Gifted and Talented
Linda Kreger Silverman (Editor), Love Publishing Co., 1993.

Educational Renaissance: Our Schools at the Turn of the Century
Marvin Cetron and Margaret Gayle, St. Martin's Press, 1992.
When it comes to testing, gifted children in the United States are well below gifted children from other countries.

Gifted Children: Myths and Realities
Ellen Winner, Basic Books, 1996.
Boston College psychology professor Ellen Winner discusses nine myths of giftedness and explains why they are inaccurate and yet so widely accepted.

Guiding the Gifted Child
James Webb, Elizabeth Meckstroth, and Stephanie Tolan, Ohio Psychology Publishing Co., 1982.
The behavioral characteristics of gifted children are discussed through the eyes of parents and teachers.

Help the Smartest
National Association for Gifted Children.
A 1993 Gallup poll suggested there is substantial public support for special school programs for gifted children, provided such help does not come at the expense of slower learners. Sixty-one percent of the 1,000 adults surveyed said schools should do more to challenge the "very smartest."

Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child
Sylvia B. Rimm, Ph.D., Barrons Educational Series, 1994.

Terman's Kids: The Groundbreaking Study of How the Gifted Grow Up
Joel Shurkin, Little, Brown Publishers, 1992.
Shurkin's comprehensive and critical book shows us that all testing -- intelligence or otherwise -- must be tainted by bias. Drawing from psychologist Lewis Terman's 1912 Stanford-Binet intelligence test, widely used as a means of assigning students to bright, average, slow, and "special" groups, the author teaches us that success -- whatever that may precisely mean -- has more to do with persistence than with a genetically inherited intelligence.

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids: How to Understand, Live With, and Stick Up for Your Gifted Child
Sally Yahnkee Walker, Free Spirit Publishing, 1995.
This book explains what "giftedness" means, how kids are identified as gifted, and what's good and bad about the label. Parents also learn how to be advocates for appropriate education in the schools.

Organizations

Center for Talent Development (CTD)
CTD programs identify, nurture, and develop the gifts of students ages 4 to 18.

Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Program
The Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act of 1994 authorizes the U.S. Department of Education to fund grants, provide leadership, and sponsor a national research center on the education of gifted and talented students.

National Association of Gifted Children
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) is a not-for-profit organization of parents, educators, other professionals and community leaders who unite to address the unique needs of children and youth with demonstrated gifts and talents as well as those children who may be able to develop their talent potential with appropriate educational experiences.

National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children is to get much needed information to the parents of gifted children.

The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
CEC is an international professional organization that advocates to improve educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities, and/or the gifted.

The Gifted Development Center
The Gifted Development Center provides "parents, schools, and advocacy groups with information about identification, assessment, counseling, learning styles, programs, presentations, and resources for gifted children and adults."

Online

Education Week: Gifted and Talented Education

Gifted and Talented Education Resources from Millville School
What does "gifted" mean? You'll find out when you visit this site. It also contains resources for parents and teachers of gifted students as well as articles, journals, books, and other publications on the subject of giftedness.

Gifted Resources Home Page
This Gifted Resources Page contains links to all known online gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, gifted mailing lists and early acceptance programs, including CTY, EPGY, CTD, NRC/GT, TIP, RMTS, ERIC, NCSSSMST, Odyssey of the Mind, and many, many others. It contains links to 4+ years of TAG-L mailing list archives (over 10 MB). It also contains contact information for many local gifted associations and government (mostly US state) programs. As more resources become available, they will be added.

GT World
GT World is an online support community for parents of Gifted and Talented children. Others interested in supporting and nurturing gifted and talented children are also most welcome.

TAG (Talented and Gifted) Family Network
The TAG Family Network is an organization dedicated to appropriate education for talented and gifted youth, and advocacy. Run by and for parents, TAG disseminates information, supports parents, and monitors and influences legal issues. Their home page on the World Wide Web contains current information on gifted education with links to many other world wide sites of interest to parents, educators, and children.

e-TAG-USA
A national list to discuss advocacy efforts for TAG students including, but not limited to, discussions about obtaining a national law, tips, suggestions, and ideas for advocacy at the district or state level, getting a bill passed, discussion about what state laws have helped or hurt TAG kids and why, and what laws looked good on paper but didn't help and more.
For informaton on how to subscribe, please contact the listowner, Monique Lloyd, at monique@rtinet.com.

GiftedNet
A mailing list for gifted and talented.
To subscribe to GiftedNet send an email message to: listserver@listserv.cc.wm.edu Skip the Subject line, and on the first text line, type: SUBSCRIBE GIFTEDNET-L your name

ORTAG
A discussion of issues related to Oregon TAG education.
Contact Monique Lloyd at monique@rtinet.com for information on how to subscribe.

TAGFAM
A mailing list for parents, children, and others who are interested in an email support group for the families of gifted and talented individuals.
To find out more, send email to TAGFAM-Request@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU.

TAG-L
A mailing list for talented and gifted education.
To subscribe send an email message to: listserv@listserv.nodak.edu Skip the Subject line, and on the first text line, type: SUBSCRIBE TAG-L firstname lastname In response you should receive a confirmation email with simple directions for confirming your subscription to the list.

TAGMAX
A discussion group for parents actively involved in giving their gifted children an appropriate education. Discussion topics include homeschooling, distance learning, Internet-based learning opportunities, and more traditional approaches. The focus is on what parents themselves can do to meet each child's hunger for learning and still stay sane.
To subscribe send an email to: listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu Skip the subject line, and on the first text line type: SUB TAGMAX firstname lastname