Annual Symposium On Gifted
Children Set For Oct. 5-6

September 30, 2004

Bowling Green, Ky. - The 14th Annual Symposium on Kentucky's Children Who Are Gifted and Talented will be Oct. 5 and 6 at Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill.

The Symposium will bring together decision-makers from across the Commonwealth to focus on gifted children. Four goals will be addressed: to examine current research and practice on gifted children and their achievement, to discuss and recommend appropriate learning opportunities for Kentucky's gifted children in light of national goals and state reform, to discuss economic and policy considerations for educating highly able young people in the Commonwealth, and to develop policy guidelines to ensure optimum development of Kentucky's gifted children.

Sponsored by the Kentucky Association for Gifted Education (KAGE) and the Kentucky Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education, some of the speakers will include Mardi Montgomery, deputy secretary of education; Dale Brown, superintendent of Warren County Schools; and Dr. Linda Sheffield, Regent's Professor, Northern Kentucky University.

For more information, contact Symposium organizer Julia Roberts, director of the Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University, at gifted@wku.edu or (270) 745-6323. More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you'd like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.

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