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46.9% of the students in the class of 2012 are enrolled in at least one AP course, 35.5% are enrolled in at least 2 AP courses and 27% are enrolled in at least 3 AP courses. FANN MAIL Fremd High School, 10/13/2011

[] National Association for Gifted Children

[] Ohio Association for Gifted Education

[]: Includes archives of past discussions - Every Friday at noon and 7:00 p.m. (EST), parents, teachers and gifted advocates from all over the world gather on Twitter to take part in Global #gtchat. This new real-time forum allows participants to share resources, ideas, experiences and new ways of thinking about gifted issues. The collaboration and learning taking place via #gtchat have been invigorating and inspiring! More than 1,000 tweets are now devoted to Global #gtchat each and every week [] Educationa__l__ Programming Standards for K-12 Gifted Education

[] Assitance from those trying to finish their Phd - anything to keep from becoming ABD

[] Largest on-line community of teachers; Access to teachers outside of D211 for idea generation and hear what the buzz; Stay away from a district rut! Innovations, creative solutions. . . while it may not be a peer reviewed journal, it certainly functions to as a peer review for ourselves. [] The Journal for Secondary Gifted Education; Peer reviewed on-line Archives from the past ten years;

[] On-line search tool that may help generate articles that I can then search for at Milner: May assist in finding other articles sorted differently than the Milner sort;

[] =Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students=

September 20, 2011 by [|Yun Xiang], [|Michael Dahlin], [|John Cronin], [|Robert Theaker], [|Sarah Durant]

Fordham’s latest study, "Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? Performance Trends of Top Students," is the first to examine the performance of America’s highest-achieving children over time at the individual-student level. Produced in partnership with the Northwest Evaluation Association, it finds that many high-achieving students struggle to maintain their elite performance over the years and often fail to improve their reading ability at the same rate as their average and below-average classmates. The study raises troubling questions: Is our obsession with closing achievement gaps and “leaving no child behind” coming at the expense of our “talented tenth”—and America’s future international competitiveness? Read on to learn more. http://www.edutopia.org/adopt-and-adapt-shaping-tech-for-classroommedia type="custom" key="13050204"