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Meeting the needs of students of exceptional academic promise

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This study identifies those practices and provisions of the Center for Talented Youth, a fully accredited, not-for-profit institute of the Johns Hopkins University. The center has earned an international reputation for the model it has developed for working with students of high mathematical and/or verbal ability.

Currently, approximately 80,000 students each year are served through a wide range of provisions that include summer academic camps, on-line programs, diagnostic testing, and family camps, in addition to producing two magazines aimed at this population of high achievers. This report identifies the mechanisms underpinning these practices, with added focus placed on the provisions to support students who have demonstrated high academic ability but who are from minority ethnic groups and/or low socio-economic backgrounds.

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