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Were You Part Of The "Mentally Gifted Minds" Program In California Scools back in the 70's?
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My daugther is in GT, gifted and talented, im proud of her because we (her parents) are from Mexico, we speak like 40-50% english, i thought that school for her was going to be hard because spanish was her first language, but it is 4 years of her being the top of her class, is funny this thread, a coincidence perhaps, today I receive a letter of the DUKE TIP, a program of DUKE University, to enroll our childm does anybody know something about that program?I don't know about that program specifically, but traditionally Duke University has been highly involved in psychic research programs. This is just the tip of the Duke iceburg: [ link to en.wikipedia.org] "Joseph Banks Rhine (September 29, 1895 – February 20, 1980) (usually known as J. B. Rhine) was a botanist who later developed an interest in parapsychology and psychology. Through the parapsychology lab at Duke he also lectured on mainstream psychological topics.[citation needed] Rhine founded the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, and the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man. He also initiated the Parapsychological Association. He coined the term ESP. Actually right know in my daugther GT class, they are talking about enigmas, Pyramids, Loch ness etc king of pretty weird... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 458781Many states belong to the Duke Talent Search program (other universities work with Duke on this as well). They basically take the gifted kids and have them take the SAT (or ACT) when they are in 7th grade and follow them through the rest of their school years, offering various programs and camps for them to attend. They are allowed to take the SAT/ACT whenever they want (although we only did it once because all of the high school kids looked at my son like a freak). There is an awards ceremony for the kids who score well on the SAT/ACT and those kids are given medals. With my son (we lived in Kansas as the time) he also got some state recognition and short internship at the governor's office and things such as that. It's kind of a dog and pony show, but harmless.
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