Special Education Today

31 January 2010

Students in gifted program produce school’s morning news show

Filed under: Special Education, Technology in Education, gifted — Maria Angala @ 12:03 pm

Students who are gifted at a Tennessee elementary school produce a video news program shown throughout the school each morning. The fourth- and fifth-graders create the 5- to-7-minute program in the school's news studio equipped with a green screen, video cameras, a mixer, a laptop and other equipment, which was funded through a grant, fundraisers and private donations. "I've learned a lot and it's fun -- problem-solving, technology. ... We all have jobs, but we're all needed to fit it together," one student news anchor said. Farragut Press (Tenn.)

14 July 2008

Cuts to summer-school programs may hurt struggling, gifted

Filed under: Special Education, gifted — Shane @ 8:30 am
Remedial and enrichment summer classes are being eliminated across the country as schools seek to balance budgets in a tight economy. "Cutting these kinds of programs is incredibly shortsighted, and will cost us more in the long run than we could ever save short term," said California state Sen. Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat. The New York Times/Associated Press

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