Laying the Base for the Future: One Cornerstone of the Javits Act. (November 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Renzulli, Joseph S.; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Gubbins, E. Jean
• Other Names: Shaunessy-Dedrick Elizabeth guest-editor.; Cotabish Alicia guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of advanced academics. Volume 25:Number 4(2014:Nov.)
• Page Start: 338
• Page End: 348
• Publication Date: 2014-11
• Subjects: Javits Act -- the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented -- gifted and talented; Academic achievement -- Periodicals; Gifted children -- Education (Secondary) -- United States -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 371.95
• DOI: 10.1177/1932202X14542686
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1932-202X

Abstract

The passage of the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act in 1988 was truly a watershed moment in the field of gifted education. The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) represented one part of the overall agenda of research and services supported by the Javits Act. How the Javits Act came to be and the rationale and decisions that formed the underlying framework for Javits are the foci of the first part of this article. The second part of this article provides a brief overview of the NRC/GT organization and mission. Multiple research teams associated with the NRC/GT implemented quantitative and qualitative research studies, invited outstanding scholars in the field to contribute to our research series, and carried out leadership duties assigned to the Center, which have been complementary additions to many contributions made by the other Javits projects over the past several decades.